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 colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 68000 Ω resistor? (a) grey-blue-orange (b) blue-grey-red (c) blue-grey-yellow (d) blue-grey-orange
- 2.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, grey, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 3.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, violet, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 4.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, green, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 5.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, green, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 6.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, grey, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 7.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, red, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 8.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, black, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 9.🌈 A gold fourth band on a resistor means the value may be off by … (a) 50 % (b) 25 % (c) 5 % (d) 0 %
- 10.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 47 Ω resistor? (a) yellow-violet-black (b) violet-yellow-black (c) yellow-violet-brown (d) green-violet-black
- 11.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, white, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 12.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, green, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 13.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, green, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 14.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, red, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 15.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, brown, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 16.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, orange, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 17.🌈 Which band is read first on a resistor? (a) the gold band (b) the one nearest an end (c) any band (d) the widest gap
- 18.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 41000 Ω resistor? (a) brown-yellow-orange (b) yellow-brown-red (c) yellow-brown-yellow (d) yellow-brown-orange
- 19.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, blue, orange. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 20.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, brown, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 21.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, black, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 22.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, orange, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 23.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, orange, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 24.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 9500 Ω resistor? (a) white-green-brown (b) green-white-red (c) white-green-orange (d) white-green-red
- 25.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does violet stand for?
- 26.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, brown, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 27.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, black, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 28.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, green, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 29.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, black, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 30.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 6400 Ω resistor? (a) blue-yellow-red (b) yellow-blue-red (c) blue-yellow-orange (d) blue-yellow-brown
- 31.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, violet, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 32.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, blue, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 33.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, black, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 34.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, yellow, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 35.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 79000 Ω resistor? (a) violet-white-red (b) violet-white-orange (c) white-violet-orange (d) violet-white-yellow
- 36.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 290 Ω resistor? (a) red-white-black (b) red-white-brown (c) white-red-brown (d) red-white-red
- 37.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 98 Ω resistor? (a) white-grey-black (b) grey-white-black (c) brown-grey-black (d) white-grey-brown
- 38.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does white stand for?
- 39.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, brown, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 40.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, brown, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
Answer key
- blue-grey-orange
- 3.8
- 7700
- 350
- 950
- 98
- 320
- 100
- 5 %
- yellow-violet-black
- 4.9
- 65000
- 1500
- 92
- 91000
- 53000
- the one nearest an end
- yellow-brown-orange
- 66
- 2.1
- 500
- 3300
- 830
- white-green-red
- 7
- 31
- 8000
- 6.5
- 300
- blue-yellow-red
- 8.7
- 260
- 9
- 4400
- violet-white-orange
- red-white-brown
- white-grey-black
- 9
- 2100
- 21000
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