On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800, you wrote:

>Dan Michaels <oricom@USWEST.NET> wrote:
>
>>Color code is no problem - translating to #'s is where
>>they should have called Mr. Spock in as consultant.
>
>>brown-black-gold =3D 10? or was it ?10
>
>In the far distant days, the metallic color band indicated tolerance:
>None =3D 20%, silver =3D 10%, gold =3D 5%. But that would be AFTER the =
third, or
>power-of-ten color band. If I recall correctly, metallic IN the third
>digit is negative power-of-ten, placing the decimal for very small =
values.
>I may have the order of colors wrong, but I believe this
>(brown-black-gold) is 0.10 Ohm. brown-black-silver would be 1.0 Ohm.
It's the other way round - gold is -1, silver -2

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