resistor color code

[chirp]

Everybody know the the little saying for remembering the resistor color code. When I was young my uncle told me about a saying that was popular around World War II.

It contain the words:
buy = black
bonds = brown
??? = red
??? = orange
??? = yellow
??? = green
??? = blue
victory = violet
garden = gray
??? = white

If anybody can fill in the missing words, I would appreciate it.

Chirp

 

[jepoi]

RESISTOR color code

0-black
1-brown
2-red
3-orange
4-yellow
5-green
6-blue
7-violet
8-grey
9-white

 

[Dean Huster]

Chirp, if you post that same question on the Antique Radios forum **broken link removed** under the "Radio Clubhouse" category, you'll probably get you answer pretty quickly.

Most of the little ditties for "memorizing" the color code used by military (especially U.S. Navy) instructors were downright pornographic. During the late 1960's Batman TV craze, this one popped up at the Basic Electricity and Electronics school in San Diego:

"Batman blanks* Robin on yonder Gotham bridge. Very good work. Get Superman next."

This was one of the few dittys that also included the gold-silver-none tolerance colors at the end as well. There was never a good ditty that worked, always having confusion among black/brown/blue or green/gray. I never like the ditties and simply memorized the code. Today, it's like a second language to me. I also have the standard 5% values memorized, just from using resistors so much. Can you imagine a little ditty to handle those 24 values per decade?


*Use your demented imagination for the original verb here.

Dean

 

[mahinda jayasinghe]

resistor colour code

Black =Black 0
Boy = brown 1
Rape = red 2
Our = orange 3
Younger = yellow 4
Girl = Green 5
But =Blue 6
'Violet' = Violet 7
gave = Gray 8
Wilingly = white 9

 

[captainkirksdog]

I learned two versions:

Bad-0
Boys-1
Rape-2
Our-3
Young-4
Girls-5
But-6
Violet-7
Gave-8
Willingly-9

and.....

Bad-0
Boys-1
Ruin-2
Our-3
Young-4
Girls-5
Behind-6
Victory-7
Garden-8
Walls-9

You also should remember that this code works for inductors and capacitors, as well as resistors. It also works for the three-digit numerical code for the same parts.

 

[chirp]

I am enjoying all the responses. But I still don't believe it was response that I heard when I was young. It went something like this:
black - buy
brown - bonds
red - recycle
orange - old
yellow - yarn
green - goods
blue - build ???
violet - victory
grey - gardens
white - ?????
I would appreciate any contributions.
Thanks,
Chirp

 

[John Sorensen]

Get Superman next.

Oh ho man still laughing.

The Navy taught me the one, "Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly. Get some now." and a host of other useful mnemonics. Including one for transistor gains, that I can't post. And one for fuse blowing times, which I can't post either, even though it only has three words for "S D F," but it probably isn't technically accurate because my guess is that "All" Ducks do "That."

j.

 

[chirp]

Thanks for the contributions, I believe this was the World War 2 resistor code saying.

black - buy
brown - bonds
red - recycle
orange - old
yellow - yarn
green - goods
blue - build
violet - victory
grey - gardens
white - win

I would appreciate any feedback, specially from any World War 2 Veterans.

Thanks,
Chirp

 

[petraltt]

0-black B
1-brown B
2-red R
3-orange O
4-yellow Y
5-green G
6-blue B
7-violet V
8-grey G
9-white W



BB ROY Great Britain has Very Good Wife

 

[Dean Huster]

The public school version was always, "Bad boys race our young girls, but Violet generally wins," leaving out the reference to violent sexual crime.

John, the transistor amplifier help I was taught when attending Navy "A" school at Treasure Island, San Francisco wasn't bad as long as you told a decent story to go along with the nemonic.

It had to do with a certain Italian/Moroccan sailor named Azaza Vopini who had a daughter named Becky (nicknamed Bec) who opened a bar near a popular port of call. With this overall easy-to-remember story, you can come up with the relative voltage gain, power gain, current gain, input impedance and output impedance for common emitter, common collector and common base transistor amplifiers. Cute way to do it.

Dean