Resistor colours

This animation shows how the resistance can be read from the coloured bands on a resistor. Each colour represents a number from 0-9. Place your mouse over a band for its interpretation.

Colour

Value

Colour

Value

black

0

green

5

brown

1

blue

6

red

2

purple

7

orange

3

grey

8

yellow

4

white

9

 

 

Downloads: Flash source file (.fla) Flash Flash (.swf) Flash Windows executable (.exe) Windows

Mac application (.app) Mac