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Tetris

Tue Sept 06 2011, 09:28PM

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RCC (not Royal Canadian Cadets!... his joke) way of remembering is very inappropriate for school but that is why it is funny he told us.

Bad beer rots our young guts, but vodka goes well. Ha ha ha!

It works, though! But I thought it would be funny to say that because we are just a group of 9th graders and that is not appropriate for school :P . And this is TOTALLY RELEVANT because its a little trick of remembering resistor color code.

Ash Small

Tue Sept 06 2011, 09:37PM

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I just use a DMM as, due to too much bad beer and vodka, I can't remember anything

magnet18

Wed Sept 07 2011, 02:15AM

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I just remember it from over-use

Killa-X

Wed Sept 07 2011, 02:22AM

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I have a color code chart on my tac board otherwise I have an app on my android that lets me slide wheels to turn color and it tells me the value. Does capacitors codes and many other helpful stuff. Such as resistors for led lights...

Dr. Slack

Wed Sept 07 2011, 06:59AM

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I also remember it from over-use. And if I'm using a CAD program with multiple layers, I recolour the layers so that 2 is red etc. Usually I don't run into trouble with black or white layers, but use pink or stripes if I do.

If I'm explaining it to somebody else, I point out that it's the colours of the rainbow, augmented at each end by obviously non-rainbow colours, which get lighter as we go from 0 to 9, so it goes

black (which is a good intuitive choice for 0)
brown
<the rainbow (less indigo, which would get confused with black or purple, and was Newton's folly anyway)>
grey
white

Now all we need is for Mr. Roy G. Biv to come up with a mnemonic for the rainbow

klugesmith

Wed Sept 07 2011, 09:04PM

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HighVoltageChick wrote ...

RCC (not Royal Canadian Cadets!... his joke) way of remembering is very inappropriate for school but that is why it is funny he told us.
Bad beer rots our young guts, but vodka goes well. Ha ha ha!

I was taught a different verse, even more inappropriate for 9th graders
(well, maybe not in 2011, given the content of prime-time TV lately).
It's politically incorrect in more ways than one, but uses two of the color words.
The pattern is the same:

B (adjective)
B (noun)s
R (verb)
Our
Young
G (noun)s,
But
V (proper noun)
G (verb)s
W (adverb)ly.

Now how 'bout some mnemonics in languages with different names for the colors?

radiotech

Thu Sept 08 2011, 04:25AM

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RCC (not Royal Canadian Cadets!... stands for Radio College of Canada ( a school for radio technicians that started in since 1929.
It is now a private specioalty trade school.

Sight reading resistors into values is easier. You only need to start with first two color pair, and their actually
not 99 of them . The values are in progressions based upon standardized formulea.

Soon you will see a resistor as a number, just like a carpenter sees a nail as a size without thinking.

cduma

Thu Sept 08 2011, 04:54PM

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My professor taught me "Bad boys rape our young girls but violet goes willingly"

Arcstarter

Thu Sept 08 2011, 09:09PM

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cduma wrote ...

My professor taught me "Bad boys rape our young girls but violet goes willingly"

Hehe, my big brother's I&E professor told the class that. Im surprised nobody has complained yet.

Polonium210

Thu Sept 08 2011, 10:27PM

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[/quote1315429103]
I was taught a different verse, even more inappropriate for 9th graders
(well, maybe not in 2011, given the content of prime-time TV lately).
It's politically incorrect in more ways than one, but uses two of the color words.
The pattern is the same:

B (adjective)
B (noun)s
R (verb)
Our
Young
G (noun)s,
But
V (proper noun)
G (verb)s
W (adverb)ly.

Now how 'bout some mnemonics in languages with different names for the colors?

[/quote1315520687]

I was taught this one in my Electrical Apprenticeship :)

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