are u people talking about the resistor colour code?? http://www.elexp.com/t_resist.htm it's very self explanatory ..... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandre Domingos F. Souza" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [EE]: Surface mount components >At 05:41 PM 1/8/01 +1100, you wrote: >>John De Villiers wrote: >>> so 101 would be 10 ohm or 100 ohm or 101 ohm??? >>101 = 100 ohms, like the color codes the third >>digit is the number of trailing zeros. >>Very common surface mount R value. >So is 100 = 10 ohms or 100 ohms? Most helpful - if please >explain logic involved in this decision. Thank you. The first and second number are the first and second numbers. Duh. The third number is the number of zeros AFTER the first and second number. So it would be 10 + "zero zeros" = 10 ohms --------------8<-------Corte aqui-------8<-------------- All the best!!! Alexandre Souza xandinho@interlink.com.br Linux User #85093 --------------8<-------Corte aqui-------8<-------------- -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.