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What does the value of a resistor mean?
Resistors. A resistor is a device that opposes the flow of electrical current. The bigger the value of a resistor the more it opposes the current flow. The value of a resistor is given in ohms and is often referred to as its ‘resistance’.
What does a 5% resistor mean?
The tolerance gives the % deviation that the real value is allowed to be different from the stated or nominal value. For example, a 100-ohm 5% resistor can be anywhere between 95 and 105 ohms. If you find a 5% resistor that is exactly the nominal value, i.e. 100 ohms, then that is just plain luck.
What does a 1% resistor mean?
The colour code used to denote the tolerance rating of a resistor is given as: Brown = 1%, Red = 2%, Gold = 5%, Silver = 10 % If resistor has no fourth tolerance band then the default tolerance would be at 20%.
What should be the value of a 100 ohm resistor?
It makes little sense to produce a 105 ohm resistor since 105 ohms falls within the 10% tolerance range of the 100 ohm resistor. The next reasonable value is 120 ohms because the 100 ohm resistor with a 10% tolerance is expected to have a value somewhere between 90 and 110 ohms.
What is the EIA 10% tolerance resistor value?
Standard EIA Decade Resistor Values Table. The next reasonable value is 120 ohms because the 100 ohm resistor with a 10% tolerance is expected to have a value somewhere between 90 and 110 ohms. The 120 ohm resistor has a value ranging between 110 and 130 ohms. Following this logic, the preferred values for 10% tolerance resistors between 100…
When to use 48 or 96 resistors per decade?
For instance, the E48 list is often used as a stock list for 1% resistors for inventory control (48 values per decade rather than 96), but this practice leaves “holes” or gaps in one’s stock not covered by tolerance overlap, an undesirable practice in a prototype lab (less of an issue to the digital designer than to an analog circuit designer).
What are the resistor values for the E12 series?
Standard EIA Decade Resistor Values Table. The 120 ohm resistor has a value ranging between 110 and 130 ohms. Following this logic, the preferred values for 10% tolerance resistors between 100 and 1,000 ohms would be 100, 120, 150, 180, 220, 270, 330 and so on (rounded appropriately); this is the E12 series shown in the table below.