Monday, May 23, 2011

Resistors

Resistor test.. It was all about calculations, as we read the colour code number....
In oder to read it, we need to know the colour identification. we just can simply check the resistors with multi-meter because that is easier than reading and calculating however by understand this identification, we can just realize the size of the resistor without multi-meter quickly.
Picture above is the colour identification.

band colours    measured value low tolerance high tolerance pass or fail
red red black gold    22.1 20.9 23.1 pass
blue grey yellow gold    686k 646k 714k pass
brown red brown gold    118.7 114 126 pass
green blue brown gold    552 532 588 pass
orange orange brown gold    326 313.5 346.5 pass
grey red black gold    80.8 77.9 86.1 pass

all measurements are in Ohms units

to calculate total resistance in a series circuit, all you have to do is simply add the resistance within the circuit.

to calculate total resistance in a parallel circuit, you must follow the formula:
1/RT= 1/R1 + 1/R2
we put the 552ohms and 326ohms together in series circuit so that the total resistance is 552+326=879ohms.

And when the two resistors become parallel 1/552 + 1/326 = 1/total resistance which is 204.95

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