Cryptic Resistor Values

Wed Nov 02 16:16:00 +0000 2005 (Posted by Tim)

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Some small surface-mount resistors use really normal looking value codes on them, analogous to the color coding on through-hole resistors. For example, Red-Red-Red, would show up on a surface mount part as 222 – meaning 2200 Ohms. But some surface mount resistors have codes like 01E. What the heck is that?

A little googling turned up http://www.niccomp.com/nrc06e96a.html-ssi which has a nice chart of the various values next their codes. Very useful!

Oh, and that 01E resistor value is 1M.

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