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Component Identification

Resistor The orientation of a resistor is not important, however they are available in many different values and it's important to use the right one. The resistor does not have the value printed in text, but instead uses coloured bands. The first two, three or four bands are used to give the value, the next band is a multiplier. The resistance is given by the value times the multiplier. The final band shows how accurate the resistor is. The bands are code as follows: zero one two three four five six seven eight nine