I do not find it easy to discriminate between red and violet
Red
Violet
Red
Xxx
Is unmistakable
I learnt my colors back in 1970, so it's second nature to me.
 When I meter a resistor it's normally because of 2/7 similarities



Peter Cousens
cousens@biscit.biz

> -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Alex Kilpatrick
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 7:08 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: Color blindness and resistors (was Puzzling
non-reset behavior)
>
> >
> >
> > My windows based calculator will give you color codes for
> > resistor www.piclist.com/techref/app/calcs.htm
> > Only works one way though (value > colors) but it's far more
> > impressive than a bit of cardboard
> >
> > Peter Cousens
> > cousens@biscit.biz
> >
>
> How is it more impressive than a piece of cardboard?  The carboard
goes
> both ways.
>
> :-)
>
> It is a nice calculator, btw.  You should show the colors instead of
> just their names.  That shouldn't be too hard in VB.
>
> Alex
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