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Aug 14, 2009. 6:22 PMHARSHAD BHATT says:
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO REMEMBER THE COLOR CODES Buy British Rubber Orelse Your Girlfriends Blooming Virginity Goes Waste. BLACK,BROWN, RED, ORANGE,YELLOW,GREEN,BLUE,VIOLET, GOLD, WHITE. Now you will never forget it.
Mar 26, 2009. 3:52 AMpyro man says:
maybe i misunderstand,but would yellow not be a five?black,(1);brown(2);red(3);orange(4);and then yellow(5)?
Mar 26, 2009. 6:55 PMpyro man says:
ok thanks
Jan 27, 2009. 1:28 PMdcutter1 says:
Here's a link that shows a bunch of variations along with the PC incorrect version:

http://everything2.com/e2node/resistor%2520color%2520code
Oct 20, 2008. 1:19 AMimarzouka says:
This might be useful to calculate the resistor value from its color code

http://myresistor.com
Oct 14, 2008. 3:52 PMdacker says:
Bad
Boys
Ravage
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly
Oct 14, 2008. 10:26 PMLinuxH4x0r says:
Wow, I like that way or remember in better! *high five*
Oct 15, 2008. 5:53 AMdacker says:
Thirty years ago, before everyone went so PC, that's how it was taught. In another variation, a couple of the terms were different, making this mnemonic device downright offensive.
Oct 15, 2008. 3:17 PMScurge says:
That's the way I was taught when i worked in a electronics surplus shop by an ole' timer. The more offensive version of dacker's, that is. IMO the more offensive and vulgar the mnemonic the more likley I'll remember it..
Oct 17, 2008. 11:11 PMtechnodude92 says:
yes, typically offensive/sexual mnemonics tend to stick better than their PC counterparts. Great way to learn SAT words...
Oct 14, 2008. 5:03 PMwestfw says:
"For Gold and Silver" (0.1 and 0.01 multipliers.) More polite but still memorable is: "Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes Well" Personally, I managed to remember them sort of black body spectrum order. You start out "Black", then add energy to go through Brown to ROY G BiV, with white at the end... I think that these days, most people are more likely to see "precision" resistors with 5 bands than 20% resistors with 3 bands. (The ending in red (2%) or brown (1%), and it works the same as the 4-band code only with three 'digits' and a multiplier) Color codes were abandoned on SMT parts (they are hard enough to tell apart on 1/8W resistors), but the general scheme holds. Larger SMT resistors will be marked with a number like "103" which means "1" "0" "000" (10k ohms.)

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