How to organise electronic components

If you have ever attempted to do electronics, and purchased books on the subject, you are always faced with, or immediately put in the deep end of technical jargon that will bore you to drop the book before you get past the first page .

Well its time to put everything in order and catalogue all the electronic components that you have at your disposal for easier reference and rapid prototyping. When I have purchased resistor packs, they have always come in un-labeled packs . In the picture, you will see a number of resistor bags, holding resistors of different values to each other . To start with, before even opening the bags, I have lebeled them : packet 1, packet 2, packet 3 etc ........................ .

To make this filing project easier to understand, I will call resistors taped together in a Row, Files . First pick up the packet labeled 1 and remove a file of resistors . Get a pen and mark on the File the number 1 .

Step 1 Label Pack 1 to 12 etc

Next pick up another File of resistors and mark this number 2 , keep repeating this going in sequence 3,4,5,6 until all the resistor Files have their own identification number .

Repeat this procedure for Packet 2 , Packet 3, Packet 4 etc .

Comments

[Nicepolicy16]

People who are Color blinde can use the number system. And that will go for all comments from anyone else.

[bumsugger]

.................and you can't spell either....................

[Minifig666]

 Im sorry but what is unreliable about the colour chart?

[Madrias357]

what's faster: touching 2 leads to a multimeter, or finding out the 3 colors on the resistor and looking them up?  ask me, I'll say multimeter every time.

[seraine]

The colors are pretty simple to memorize- it's basically black, brown, ROY G BIV. If you memorize it, it takes like a second.

[Nicepolicy16]

People who are Color blinde can use the number system. And that will go for all comments from anyone else.

[seraine]

However, it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between colors in the 5-8 ish range.

[8bit]

Definitely faster to just look at the bands. One doesn't need charts if one understands the code. 

[totos]

try quite universal circuit simulator(qucs)
it is originaly
for linux but there are binary versions of the program which work in windows.
the latest stable version is 0.0.15

[Patented]

Nice organisation! but u need to focus!

[cammel8]

Besides this one... I cant get it to work on my computer... keeps crashing!!!

[Nicepolicy16]

Try this simulator and go to Electronics, because they have a number of Scientific sections for all types of simulator .

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[Nicepolicy16]

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[cammel8]

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[Nicepolicy16]

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[Nicepolicy16]

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[lemonie]

It might be better titled "How to organise electronic components"? Personally I trust the colour coding on resistors, but I'd agree that it doesn't hurt to check a few. L

[rimar2000]

Your consideration at the introduction they are absolutely true. This instructable seems to facilitate the things, thanks very much.