White Red Gold Brown? 9.2 ohm, 1%? Picture is not easy to tell the color... I think I'd measure it if possible.
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I measured it in system and it showed 8.3ohms, but calculating via the bands should 1.4kohms. I'd like to keep the resistor in the speaker just for a while longer 🙂
That value of 1.4k is unlikely, since it is too high to be useful.
Because one end is only connected to a capacitor, just measure it in-circuit and the measured value will be correct.
Your DVM is likely not accurate enough at such low values, though.
Because one end is only connected to a capacitor, just measure it in-circuit and the measured value will be correct.
Your DVM is likely not accurate enough at such low values, though.
How many diyaudio geeks does it take to figure out a resistor value?
Depends on how many bands the resistor has 😀
Depends on how many bands the resistor has 😀
You guys are pure living legends, not only the lightning fast responses but also the good vibes and the willingness not to throw me out the window for asking such silly questions, thank you so much again, I'll get back here to close the bets when i measure it out of system 😀😀😀
This is DC. The nearby inductor will have no effect on the resistor measurement at all.
In-circuit and out-of-circuit will also measure identically, unless the capacitor is shorted.
How many grammarians does it take to remove all the fun out of a post.
Just one
Of course you are correct and I'm just goofin'. GPS
Just one
Of course you are correct and I'm just goofin'. GPS
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I'm a heavy hitter in the English thread.
But really, one glance at that resistor and I'd be reaching for my DMM, to get its actual value and to check if it's okay. I couldn't quite tell the colors from that pic, and it's not the common 1k, 4.7k or 33k that I can 'read' at a glance. There are resistor color code pages online, but ones like that might not be figurable, especially when you can't quite tell what colors the color bands are. This is an excellent 'newbie quetion.'
But really, one glance at that resistor and I'd be reaching for my DMM, to get its actual value and to check if it's okay. I couldn't quite tell the colors from that pic, and it's not the common 1k, 4.7k or 33k that I can 'read' at a glance. There are resistor color code pages online, but ones like that might not be figurable, especially when you can't quite tell what colors the color bands are. This is an excellent 'newbie quetion.'
If the white is grey, it's 8.2 Ohm, which is close to the measurement.
This a mix of old and new coding (thanks chinese)....
Three band old standard grey/red/gold =8,2 ohm or...... with heat (dis)coloration white/brown/gold = 9,1 ohm.
That old coding usually had gold (5%) or silver (10%) tolerance, but thanks to some evolution over the last 50 years,
now we have red (2%) and brown (1%) added to the scale.
So..... without heat damage to the colors = 8R2 1% 👍
Three band old standard grey/red/gold =8,2 ohm or...... with heat (dis)coloration white/brown/gold = 9,1 ohm.
That old coding usually had gold (5%) or silver (10%) tolerance, but thanks to some evolution over the last 50 years,
now we have red (2%) and brown (1%) added to the scale.
So..... without heat damage to the colors = 8R2 1% 👍
Looks like a Zobel network, that R and C, so 8 ohms makes sense if the speaker system is nominally 8 ohms.