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It would have made a lot of sense to have the tolerance band twice as wide as the others, or the space between the tolerance and the others twice as wide, but hey the standards committee must know best and didn't think it was necessary.
some doIt would have made a lot of sense to have the tolerance band twice as wide as the others
Couldn't agree more, I use my DMM to check the R values. The blue metal film R's are the worst for determining the colours, especially red, orange, brown, as they more or less look the same.As you say, it can be quite confusing - particularly with 2% (red) and 1% (brown) resistors - I must admit, I've taken to measuring them before fitting recently, using my Bangood component tester