resistor colour code mnemonic, my attempt  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:26:39 am
content: HiI learned the racist/rape mnemonic early in my career and still can't manage to forget it.So I was trying to give students a mnemonic that they might actually remember, and would not scar them for life.here are the ones from Wikipedia which I wasn't satisfied with.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_mnemonicsHere is my attempt.black is nightbrown is clay2 infra redand violet rays8 shades of greytill the white of dayit relies on the knowledge of the order of the visible light spectrum which I always found useful anyway.any comments? is it useful? or is my poetic licence revoked?

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:32:05 am
content: I learned the bad beer rots our young guts but vodka goes well mnemonic. If yours works for you, great. It's whatever floats your poetic boat.

author: Mr.B
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:37:56 am
content: A bit boring, but I originally learned it with a fictitious blokes name in the middle: Roy G. BivIgnore the lower case iBlack Brown ROY G BiV Grey White

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:47:23 am
content: Quote from: Mr.B on October 05, 2018, 12:37:56 amThat's almost identical to the way I learned it (self taught).

author: TheSteve
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:52:29 am
content: BetterBeReadyOrYourGreatBigVentureGoesWest

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:55:56 am
content: Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on October 05, 2018, 12:26:39 amGood luck, I can't forget the original bad one and never will, but I won't repeat it out loud.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:57:06 am
content: For the natural colour spectrum/rainbow there's:Roy Of York Gave Battle In Vain.Red=2 Orange=3 Yellow=4 Green=5 Blue=6 Indigo=7 Violet.Not hard to add the black=0, gray=8, white=9.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 12:59:07 am
content: does anyone even use color codes? can you even tolerate looking in mixed parts bins??I measure simple components before I insert them as a habit.I used a color code once, to replace a shorted part in a fried signal generator that I did not have the schematics for. And I used electronics2000.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 01:04:18 am
content: Up to and including carbon film resistors - reading colour codes was never a problem for me ... but when those idiotic blue bodied metal film things hit the market, I could have strangled someone.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 01:18:08 am
content: Quote from: Mr.B on October 05, 2018, 12:37:56 amThis is the way it is/was taught in Australian high schools as well. Thanks for the brief trip down memory lane. ;-)

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 02:04:12 am
content: When I went through High School - this was the only electronics content I encountered ... and that was only for students that went for Level 1 Science (Physics) in the senior years.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 03:17:53 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on October 05, 2018, 02:04:12 amI was fortunate enough to go to a selective school which offered electronics as a stand-alone subject. We learnt to solder, use tools like multimeters, implement ICs like 555 timers, learnt about resistance, capacitance etc... Junior years got a small taste of every subject, then in the senior years your chose your electives. I chose electronics and woodworking. We also had technical drawing, metalworking, hospitality (cooking), textiles (sewing), biology, chemistry and physics.I actually didn't mind high school although sports was a complete waste of time. The sports/physical development teachers carried on like their subjects were the most important thing in the world. I managed to always get out of the lessons (without failing the subject) as I also administered the schools network/servers before they were all handed off to the Department of Education. Good times

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 08:06:51 pm
content: I know the color code by heart but where I always come unstuck are the four band and five band resistors, I've even seen six band resistors on some kit.

author: VK5RC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 05, 2018, 08:25:08 pm
content: +1 re a curse on the person who chose blue as the background colour - but the size makes many colours indistinguishable. My fav mnemonic helps a bit with all the Bs.Black Bull Ran Over Your Garden, Blue Violets Gone West