Hello, Can you please identify this resistor. I’m having a hard time due to both ends are the same color and not sure if its brown or gold bands.
I want to place an order to buy a few of them. digikey.com
Thank you
I forgot to mention the approx size.
it’s about 3.5 to 4 mm length. from lead end to lead end.
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Here is another picture of same resistor but from a different device. The above resistor end color bands look gold. And this one looks brown.
Hello Rams,
Based on the images it appears that it may be brown on either end, which would also be the lower tolerance. Gold would be 5% and Brown would be 1%, so worst case scenario, it would end up being an upgrade if you purchased a 1%. It also may be better to base it off the resistor that doesn’t appear to be burned, as the heat may have discolored the band a bit, making it more difficult to correctly identify a color.
As for the resistance value, if you haven’t already, I would measure the value of the one that appears to be working. I can see it being brown/black/black/red/brown or brown/red/black/black/brown.
We also have this Resistor Color Code calculator to assist with identifying and finding product.
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The color bands to me also look to be brown, red, black, black, and the last brown for tolerance. The band on the left looks to be further apart from the rest marking it as the last band which is usually tolerance.
Using our resistor color code calculator I found this to be a 120 ohm 1%.
Something like S120CACT-ND that is a 0.25 watt. If you want to consider higher wattage but within same size or about, you can also check out the 0.4 watt one in 56-MBA02040C1200FRP00CT-ND.
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Thank you. Much appreciated
Thank you. Very helpful.
In this kind of case, where the value is likely one of two possibilities (120ohm or 10k depending on reading direction) and the damage is obviously due to overheat, one can get further confirmation by considering the failure condition. A 10k 0.25W resistor gets burned with 100V over it (assuming that 1W dissipation will lead to a failure), but 120ohm one will retire already at 11V. If the system around the resistor won’t ever provide 100V, then one can be pretty sure that it is 120ohm.
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Thank you Heke
I read the resistors value at 120ohm’s. I used my multimeter.
Thanks again for the input.!
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