Posted by VoltSecond on July 17, 2000 at 00:13:17:

In Reply to: Re: I am puzzled re Foreplay resistors posted by Perseo on July 16, 2000 at 15:09:10:

The five color band 1K is a 1%. The four color resistor is a 5%. Don't sweat the tolerance. Your line voltage will cause more changes than the resistor. The two 1K resistor drops are 7% of the Foreplay power supply voltage. So we are talking about 5% of 7% or 0.35%.

Note: Many 5% resistors (usually metal oxide) are more rugged than the typical 1% (usually metal film).

For the resistor color codes see:
http://members.xoom.com/sm0vpo/begin/componen.htm
http://www.cros.net/dougd/resistor.htm

I found a calculator for 5 band resistors here:
http://zeus.cedcc.psu.edu/res/res_id.html

• A color code calculator