How to Determine the Resistance Value of a Resistor

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How to Read Resistors More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Jan Rosenbom | permalink
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Resistors are devices used in electronic circuits to provide a known resistance to the flow of electrical signals. They are used to scale and shape the signal that is passing through them to help achieve the desired performance of the...
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How to Determine the Resistance Value of a Resistor | eHow More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by petsi | permalink
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Resistors are by far the most common components in most electronic circuits. However, since they are produced very inexpensively and often have round bodies, their resistance value cannot be printed on them. For that reason, the most common type of resistors (carbon film resistors) use a common color coding scheme to allow you to quickly...

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_2278972_determine-resistance-value-resistor.html ^[2]

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How to read color codes from resistors. More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Dave Busch | permalink
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The value of the resistor is marked on the body using colors. Every color is different number and you can remember these numbers or you can just use t...

For further reading: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-read-color-codes-from-resistors-1/ ^[3]

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Resistor Colour Code and Resistor Tolerances Explained More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Tracie Padgett | permalink
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Electronics Tutorial about Resistor Colour Codes used to identify Resistor Colour Bands also including Resistor Tolerances, E-series and Preferred Values
Tags: resistor colour code,resistor color code,colour codes for resistors,resistor colors,resistor tolerance,resistor preferred values,resistor e-series,www.electronics-tutorials.ws

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1. http://www.wikihow.com/Read-Resistors

2. http://www.ehow.com/how_2278972_determine-resistance-value-resistor.html

3. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-read-color-codes-from-resistors-1/

4. http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/resistor/res_2.html