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Position the resistor with this band on the right side and again read your resistor from left to right. If you have a resistor with a gold or silver band on one end, you have a 5% or 10% tolerance resistor. Resistors never start with a metallic band on the left. Always read resistors from left to right. Hold the resistor with these grouped bands to your left. Many resistors have some of the color bands grouped closer together or grouped toward one end. How do I know which end of the resistor to start reading from? Using brown, the most common sixth band color, as an example, every temperature change of 10☌ changes the resistance value by 0.1%. A six-band resistor is basically a five-band type with an additional ring indicating the reliability, or the temperature coefficient (ppm/K) specification. Everything else shifts to the right, making the fourth color band the multiplier and the fifth band the tolerance. If your resistor has five or six color bands, the third band becomes this additional digit along with bands one and two. Resistors with high precision have an extra color band to indicate a third significant digit. Keep in mind that if this band is absent and you are looking at a three-band resistor, the default tolerance is ☒0%. The fourth color band signifies tolerance. This multiplier will basically shift your decimal place around to change your value from mega ohms to milliohms and anywhere in between. On a three or four-band resistor, the third band represents the multiplier. The first two bands always denote the first two digits of the resistance value in ohms. Let’s take a look at the color code chart below and dive right in with a few examples:ĭownload the chart.