With surface-mount components quickly becoming the norm, even for homebrew hardware, the resistor color-code can sometimes feel a bit old-hat. However, anybody who has ever tried to identify a random ...

What kinds of applications utilize precision resistor trimming? Obvious applications include setting operational-amplifier gain and offset and voltage regulator output (Fig. 1a and 1b). But there are ...

Today is the 2 nd of February in the year 2022, and red is the color used to encode two. Unfortunately, today’s five-band scheme uses a different color for the five band that indicates the tolerance ...