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I recently went through some old components and came across a green resistor like component. It had the same colour bands as standard resistors. What is it and what does it do?
In the 1940s resistors were always brown. In the 1950s and 1960s you could also get tan resistors. With the advent of imported carbon film resistors, most turned blue, some light, some dark. I've seen greens ones, both light and dark. There've been orange ones; black ones and purple/violet ones.
My wife and daughter invaded my "space" before Christmas one year to mount various components on a blank (desoldered) PCB for making a clock as a present. They went for the prettiest parts available. Thank heavens that 40-pin ICs aren't particulary pretty! But the resistors and capacitors certainly were, especially the conformal-coated tantalums with the value maked with color bands.
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