Electronics Worksheet: Resistor Colour Code
Remember (Digit, digit, zeros): black 0 · brown 1 · red 2 · orange 3 · yellow 4 · green 5 · blue 6 · violet 7 · grey 8 · white 9. Band 1 and band 2 = two digits; band 3 = number of zeros to add. Examples: brown-black-red = 1000 Ω; yellow-violet-brown = 470 Ω; red-red-red = 2200 Ω = 2.2 kΩ.
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- 1.🌈 Which band is read first on a resistor? (a) the gold band (b) the widest gap (c) any band (d) the one nearest an end
- 2.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 160 Ω resistor? (a) blue-brown-brown (b) brown-blue-brown (c) brown-blue-black (d) brown-blue-red
- 3.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does blue stand for?
- 4.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, brown, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 5.🌈 A gold fourth band on a resistor means the value may be off by … (a) 0 % (b) 50 % (c) 25 % (d) 5 %
- 6.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does green stand for?
- 7.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, red, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 8.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does brown stand for?
- 9.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, yellow, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 10.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, white, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 11.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, brown, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 12.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, yellow, orange. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 13.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, red, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 14.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, blue, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 15.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, green, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 16.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, violet, orange. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 17.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, red, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 18.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, green, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 19.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, blue, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 20.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, red, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 21.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, green, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 22.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 92 Ω resistor? (a) red-white-black (b) white-red-brown (c) brown-red-black (d) white-red-black
- 23.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, orange, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 24.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does red stand for?
- 25.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 19 Ω resistor? (a) brown-white-black (b) red-white-black (c) white-brown-black (d) brown-white-brown
- 26.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, grey, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 27.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, red, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 28.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, grey, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 29.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 210 Ω resistor? (a) brown-red-brown (b) red-brown-black (c) red-brown-red (d) red-brown-brown
- 30.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 470 Ω resistor? (a) violet-yellow-brown (b) yellow-violet-black (c) yellow-violet-red (d) yellow-violet-brown
- 31.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, brown, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 32.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, brown, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 33.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does violet stand for?
- 34.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, yellow, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 35.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, white, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 36.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, brown, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 37.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does black stand for?
- 38.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, green, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 39.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, violet, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 40.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 3600 Ω resistor? (a) orange-blue-red (b) blue-orange-red (c) orange-blue-brown (d) orange-blue-orange
Answer key
- the one nearest an end
- brown-blue-brown
- 6
- 5100
- 5 %
- 5
- 920
- 1
- 840
- 29
- 710
- 84
- 220
- 56
- 2.5
- 17
- 5200
- 950
- 560
- 8200
- 9.5
- white-red-black
- 7300
- 2
- brown-white-black
- 280
- 220
- 6.8
- red-brown-brown
- yellow-violet-brown
- 4.1
- 2100
- 7
- 7.4
- 6.9
- 51000
- 0
- 15000
- 8.7
- orange-blue-red
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