These color bands and the necessary orientation to read them are universal, no matter the resistor brand. In the event you come across a five-band resistor, it reads the same except as a three ...

but actually reading the color code is something that I did not really study and I suspect that most others learned the same way. As a teenager, my first breakthrough came when I picked up a resistor ...

One of the first things you learn in electronics is how to identify a resistor’s value. Through-hole resistors have color codes, and that’s generally where beginners begin. But why are they ...

Resistors are one of the most basic yet crucial components in all electronic devices, but what do they actually do, and how ...