ORIGINAL: healthyfatboy
Here's the code for the resistors:
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Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The first two stripes indicate the first two numbers and the next color is the multiplier. If there is a fourth one, it is usually a tolerance band (gold or silver) indicating 10% and 5% (can't remember which is which right off the top of my head).
So a 100k would be Brown, Black, Yellow, 330k would be Orange, Orange, Yellow
Exactly right.
Check this site for a real lazy (easy) chart.
http://www.micro-ohm.com/colorcode/rescolor.html
I have been lucky, since all the resistors I have bought have a silver or gold tolerance band.
You 'read' the resistor from the other end, the one opposite the gold or silver.
Pretty sure, anyway.
Oh yeah, the resistors I used are 1/4 watt,I have some 1/8 watt too but have not tried them yet.