Electronics

Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West

Ohms value of the color bands of resistors (dark first, light last)

Color   first&second bands   third band

Black           0                 .0

Brown           1                 0

Red             2                 00

Orange          3                 000

Yellow          4                 0,000

Green           5                 00,000

Blue            6                 000,000

Violet          7                 0,000,000

Grey            8                 00,000,000

White           9                 000,000,000

Contributed by Phil Marcelis!

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Goes Willingly

An alternative saying for the above information, contributed by WHUMPAGE@NETCOMUK.CO.UK and also separately by drhodes@hercules.com, who also contributed:

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls

drhodes notes that nobody knows what a victory garden is anymore... although I learned about it in The American Girl books about Molly.

Bad beer rots our young guts, but vodka goes well.

Bad boys rough our young girls, but Violet goes willingly

Contributed by Jon_Brooker@mlb.sticomet.com ... I didn't realize there were so many mnemonics for this information!

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly... for Silver or Gold

An addition to the mnemonic, because, "Resistors have another band, either silver or gold, which gives the tolerance which the resistor can deviate from the nominal value," according to Mark K. (Thanks!)

Pee iN the Pot (PNP)

Also from Mark, for transistors, to remember which one has the arrow pointing toward the intersection of the connections.

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