Resistor Color Code Acronym
JOEL N. STEENIS
Hello All,
I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
learning the resistor color code.
Thanks,
Joel KB7RYU
--
Greg Castiglione
violet gives willingly.
b black
b brown
r red
o orange
y yellow
g green
b blue
v violet
g gray
w white
It's the first letter in each word in the above sentence. --Greg--My
high school electronics teacher taught our class that 25 years ago!
Paul Martin
girls but Violet gives willingly."
MailfrmPA
>wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>learning the resistor color code.
Bab Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly.
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Oris
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> Hello All,
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> wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
> learning the resistor color code.
>
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> Joel KB7RYU
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Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
Behind
Violet's
Gray
Wall
Oris
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> Hello All,
>
> I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
> wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
> learning the resistor color code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel KB7RYU
>
> --
W1PEV
Black
Brown
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green Blue
Violet
Gray
White
Gold
Silver
None
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JOEL N. STEENIS wrote in message <7b3om1$qpt$1...@news.asu.edu>...
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already..
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msb
better
be
right
or
your
great
big
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Robinson, AB5VH
going through the GSE pipeline at Great Mistakes NTC. There are other, more
colorful ones as well. Encourage your students to come up with their own.
Have a competition or something. Stuff like that increases retention.
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Greg Castiglione wrote in message <36D567...@DIM.com>...
>JOEL N. STEENIS wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
>> wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>> learning the resistor color code.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joel KB7RYU
>>
>> --
>Oh, Come on!! Everybody knows that!! Black boys rape our young girls but
>violet gives willingly.
>
John Douglas
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>
>Hello All,
>
>I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
>wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>learning the resistor color code.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Joel KB7RYU
>
OK Joel:
Here are a couple of alternate PC acronyms (Used at Keesler AFB Tech schools
1956-1960).
Bad Booze Rots Our Young Guts but Vodka Goes Well.
and the most PC of all, generally used with WAF officers in the class:
Big Boys Race Our Young Girls But Violet Generally Wins.
73
John Douglas
N0ISL/4ID
Timewave Technology
Jeffrey Herman
>Hello All,
>I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
>wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>learning the resistor color code.
Hi Joel,
The one I learned is:
"Bad Boys Root Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Way."
Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White
Kind of nasty for a co-ed class, though...
73,
Jeff WH6U
Jeffrey Herman
>I feel better already..
What colors are those?
WH6U
Have yerself a-Snappin Gyro boy!
Paul Martin <pma...@bright.net> wrote in article <7b3r27$85a$1...@cletus.bright.net>...
> In 1969 my teacher used the more socially correct "Bad boys rape our young
> girls but Violet gives willingly."
During the last "real" War this country was involved in, meaning World
War II, the memory jogger went: " Bad Boys Raped Our Young Girls Behind
Victory Garden Wall's ".
If your unsure what a "Victory Garden" was, do a search for the phrase
at http://www.hotbot.com
James (Work)
or
bad biys rape our young girls but virgins get wet
have fun 2e1avx...
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H. Adam Stevens
Bill Newkirk
Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly" as the memory aid.
they didn't catch on....
JOEL N. STEENIS wrote in message <7b3om1$qpt$1...@news.asu.edu>...
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>
>Hello All,
>
>I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
>wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>learning the resistor color code.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Joel KB7RYU
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Mike Bevan
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>I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
>wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>learning the resistor color code.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Joel KB7RYU
>
>--
As I am sure you will hear the standard ones - this is a slightly
wierd one:
Black Beauty Races Other Young Geldings Beating Very Great Winners
for Silver or Gold (to cover the tolerance bands)
I believe this was thought up by somebody who was upset about the
objections to:
Bad Boys Rape Other Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
for Silver or Gold.
which has always been the standard one I have heard.
-----------------------
Side comment - Political Correctness of color code mnenomics. After
having just spent several years in the Navy as an Electronics Tech, I
was sitting in the sauna at the Intramural gym at the University of
Washington when someone was so upset at my suggestion that a tech might
find a dirty mnenomic easier to remember that he started yelling at me
about being racist, sexist and classist. This was a bit confusing to me
because I didn't think it likely that I was looking down on myself as
inferior, having just spent several years as an enlisted sailor, and as
far as I could tell race had never entered into it. I suppose he could
have had some point on sexist, because I was willing to admit to the use
of a mmnemonic that was unfavorable to women, but I didn't intend any
advocacy of rape or prostitution by using a convenient memory device.
For a few minutes I thought things were going to get to the point of
fisticuffs. This can be a touchy issue.
At the time there was a big thing going because someone had made a
sexual harassment charge because of the "Violet" mnemonic being
mentioned in an EE lecture.
--
Michael T. Bevan WA3NAK ; B.S. Phys. ; CFI CFII MEI (pick a set as relevant)
myc...@clark.net Maule MX7-235 N5655P
crob...@okra.deltast.edu
>I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
>wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>learning the resistor color code.
from the 1965 version "Radio" merit badge book (BSA)
Better Black
Be Brown
Right Red
Or Orange
Your Yellow
Great Green
Big Blue
Venture Violet
Goes Gray
West White
Though I personally use a different one mentioned in previous postings, this
may be more appropriate for younger students.
73,
Chris Roberts
KD5AUC Tech+
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Robinson, AB5VH
not being PC can even cost them their job or reputation. All the wimps,
SNAGS, and various pointy head types who have always secretly wanted to
become a "jackbooted thug" can now do so. All they have to do is join the
"thought police" and participate in the PC witch-hunts. Instant power.
Respect for minorities, etc is a good thing,, but respect for EVERYBODY
should neatly cover that. Respect MY right to speak, and you will know my
thoughts. Force me in some way to keep my thoughts a secret, and there is
just one more festering sore in our society; one more bubble of malcontent
that exists unbeknownst to the blissfully ignorant pollyannas who think
everything is just peachy.
In the case of the resistor mnemonic, we are looking at a nonsensical phrase
that has no meaning except in the order of the first letter of each word. It
has nothing to do with anything, and anybody who reads disrespect in it is
being pretty damn paranoid, or is just on the PC power trip.
As a practical way of dealing with the problem, I suggest letting the
students make up their own mnemonic, giving a non-controversial one as an
example, and recommending that the student's mnemonic be outrageous enough
to easily remember. That should keep the PC thugs at bay, and still retain a
valuable teaching tool.
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-Robinson- (AB5VH)
San Benito, Texas
a nice little town on the beautiful Lower Rio Grande Valley
for radio, maritime, and locks/locksmithing stuff go to
my NEW, IMPROVED, BIGGER site at:
http://www.geocities.com/~robinsonab5vh/
dit diddy dit dit
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Mike Bevan wrote in message <7bgprh$rbv$1...@callisto.clark.net>...
>In article <7b3om1$qpt$1...@news.asu.edu>,
>JOEL N. STEENIS <azkb...@aztec.asu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
>>wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
>>learning the resistor color code.
>>
ican do it too phsyco u
Little Arsenic out
Down and out in Powder Springs
I am a drunken failure, hiccup.
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> Hello All,
>
> I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
> wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
> learning the resistor color code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel KB7RYU
>
Bad Boys Ravish Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
for Gold and Silver at the Five and Dime.
I added the last line when I started teaching electronics and avionics
as a memory aid for the tolerance bands
Gold equals five percent and Silver equals ten percent.
paul wise
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Michael Black
> Hello All,
>
> I am teaching someone basic electronics and am
> wondering if anyone knows of any acronyms for
> learning the resistor color code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel KB7RYU
The problem with acronyms or mnemonics are that if they aren't simple it's
easier remembering the thing in the first place. This is especially true
when using someone else's scheme for remembering something, because it
isn't necessarily the way your own mind files things.
The color code is really quite easy to remmeber.
If you rely on some spiffy sentence to recall the sequence, you'll end up
always having to do a lookup search on the sentence and then calculate the
matching word's place in the sentence to get the number.
This is about the same mechanism as if you learned the code by looking up
the dots and dashes from a table. You hear the sound, you decipher the
sequence, and then you look up a match. If you simply associate the
string of dots and dashes with the character, the intermediate step is
removed.
The trick to learning the resistor color code is to use it. Back when I
started in electronics, I must have kept the ARRL Handbook (which was
smaller back then) or some other book with the color code chart handy. If
there was a resistor I wanted to know the value of, I'd look it up on the
chart. With a little time, I'd recognize the colors as the numbers they
represented. Note that I was building things and handling the resistors,
which is a far less abstract environment for learning the color code than
trying to simply memorize the color code.
If I was helping someone today, I'd suggest they photocopy the chart, cut
it to size, and tape it to a similar size of cardboard. That is heandier
than constantly thumbing through the book. A trick to try might be to get
a box of markers, and put a dot of the appropriate color next to the
number, as a visual aid for finding the value. When building, you get
into the habit of checking the value of components before wiring them in,
and maybe simply using a digital multimeter to measure the value of the
resistor would be enough to help you connect the color with the number,
though I'm less certain.
One thing this won't do is allow you to give off a string of colors when
someone gives you the value of a resistor. I find that while I'm okay
looking at resistor color codes, I'm less capable of decoding in an
abstract setting. I notice the same problem when someone asks me where
a familiar street is. I have to pause and think, but if I was going
there myself, I wouldn't give it any thought at all. But that's okay
because the point of the color code is to use it, and I can instantly
read the code when in it's proper environment, which is visual (just as
code is an aural communication mode, not visual).
I also notice that common resistors are instantly recognizable by their
complete seauence. I know that 4.7K resistor in front of me is a 4.7K
resistor (though I'd have to churn some gears to give you the color code
as I write this), but a 390K resistor requires me to decode it stripe by
stripe.
Michael VE2BVW
Chuck Schultz
Here's one my friends came up with when I was in college (EE):
Buy Beer Regularly Or Your Good Buddies Visits Gradually Wain
(diminish).
Coming from a school with a 10:1 male:female ratio, that was about the
extent of the fun for most of us!
Chuck Schultz, KE4NNF
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