Beer and Vodka Can Help You Select a Terminating Resistor

Try this mnemonic if you are trying to remember the resistor color codes:


Bad         (0) Black
Beer         (1) Brown
Rots         (2) Red
Our         (3) Orange
Young         (4) Yellow
Guts         (5) Green
But         (6) Blue
Vodka         (7) Violet
Goes         (8) Grey
Well         (9) White
        (0.1) Gold
        (0.01) Silver



Note: If you’re missing a tolerance band that implies that the tolerance is 20%.

Which end do you start reading the color bands?

There are usually two ways:

1) If one of the bands at the end of the sequence is further apart then that is the tolerance band – start from the opposite end.
2) If all the bands are closer to one side of the resistor then start from that end – the tolerance band is the last one your read.

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2 Responses to “Beer and Vodka Can Help You Select a Terminating Resistor”


  1. 1 Ron Evans Dec 19th, 2008 at 7:07 am

    I like it. I will print this out to hang at my workbench at home in the garage. I’m not sure I will use the mnemonic but I need a color chart.

  2. 2 brillen online Dec 2nd, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    You really make it appear really easy along with your presentation but I in finding this matter to be actually something that I feel I would by no means understand. It sort of feels too complicated and extremely wide for me. I am having a look forward in your subsequent post, I will try to get the cling of it!

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