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Resistor Color Wheel: Food Living Outside Play Technology Workshop

This document describes how to make a resistor color wheel to help identify resistor values based on their color bands. It includes instructions to print, cut out, and assemble cardboard disks and a guide to create a wheel that can be spun to match colors and read off resistor values. For example, a resistor with yellow, purple, orange bands would have a value of 47k ohms. Files to print the color wheel parts are provided.

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Resistor Color Wheel: Food Living Outside Play Technology Workshop

This document describes how to make a resistor color wheel to help identify resistor values based on their color bands. It includes instructions to print, cut out, and assemble cardboard disks and a guide to create a wheel that can be spun to match colors and read off resistor values. For example, a resistor with yellow, purple, orange bands would have a value of 47k ohms. Files to print the color wheel parts are provided.

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Food Living Outside Play Technology Workshop

Resistor Color Wheel


by robives on February 26, 2014

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Intro: Resistor Color Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Intro: Resistor Color Wheel
This project was originally released on my website www.robives.com

Resistors use coloured bands to show their value. There are usually four bands, the first two code for the first two digits of the resistors value, the third is the multiplier,
basically the number of zeroes on the end of the number. The final band shows the tolerance of the resistor, how accurate it is.

This color wheel helps you decode the bands on standard resistor so you can see what value they are .

Download the pdf file from the link.

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Step 1:
Print out the parts onto thin card (230 gram / 67 lb)

Cut out the holes then cut out the parts.

Step 2:
Lift up the three tabs in the largest disk. Thread the other two disks into place as shown above.

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Step 3:
Fold the tabs flat. Dab a small amount of glue on each tab and glue the cover into place. Make sure the disks are free to turn.

Step 4:
Flip the disk over and glue the guide on the back.

Step 5:
To use the Resistor Code Calculator, dial in the colours and read off the number - simple!

So for example a yellow, purple, orange resistor, would have a value of 47k ohms. Paper engineering meets electronic engineering.

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