Here resistor color codes are given for reference and needed for students and electrical engineers. While calculating resistance for a physical circuit, for finding resistance values of 4, 5 and 6 band resistors, this article will help you surely.
When resistors are small in size, it is difficult to read its information on resistor, also it is complex to print on tiny resistors. There is a chance of data get erased. So color coding gives clear and reliable data about resistor.
| Color | Digit | Multiplier | Tolerance (%) |
| Black | 0 | 100=1 | |
| Brown | 1 | 101 | 1 |
| Red | 2 | 102 | 2 |
| Orange | 3 | 103 | |
| Yellow | 4 | 104 | |
| Green | 5 | 105 | 0.5 |
| Blue | 6 | 106 | 0.25 |
| Violet | 7 | 107 | 0.1 |
| Grey | 8 | 108 | |
| White | 9 | 109 | |
| Gold | 10-1 | 5 | |
| Silver | 10-2 | 10 |
Refer above table data to find Resistance value of the electric/electronic component resistor as the color bands printed on it. Different colors and its corresponding value are given in above table.
There 3 types of resistors present, as 4 band, 5 band and 6 band resistors. Band is a color strip attached to resistor. The last two bands represent multiplier and Tolerance values. The remaining first bands represent digits.
In the 6 band resistors the last band represent temperature coefficient, first 3 bands are numeric digits, 4th and 5th are multiplier and tolerance same as in 5 band resistors.
Once resistors circuit is formed use the Equivalent resistance calculator from this website to get output resistance.