Electrical Engineering - Ohm's Law - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Ohm's Law - General Questions (Q.No. 4)
4.
A resistor is connected across a 50 V source. What is the current in the resistor if the color code is red, orange, orange, silver?
2 mA
2.2 mA
214 mA
21.4 mA
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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Discussion:
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MAHESH BABU.T said:   1 decade ago
Remember the coding
B B R O Y G B V G W _ For short cut BBROY GREAT BRITAN VERY GOOD WIFE
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

B-Black-0
B-Brown-1
R-Red- 2
O-Orange-3
Y-Yellow-4
G-green-5
B-Blue- 6
V-Violet-7
G-Green-8
W-White-9
Silver--- 10%
Gold --- 20%


For Example He given blue, red,green ,gold
then solution to resistor becomes
Blue -6
Red-- 2
green-8
gold 20%

First write two colour codes side to side
then for third color code it will be power of 10
then for 20%(if gold) multiply it with 20/100

62*(10^8)*(20/100)

in this example R=1240000000



For Above problem

23*(10^3)*(10/100)
R =2300

Sravan said:   1 decade ago
Can you tell me the answer for 5 coloured resistor i.e. red, yellow, grey, blue, voilet?

Meena said:   1 decade ago
"BBROY of Great Britain had a Very Good Wife with Gold and Silver"

Black 0
Brown 1
Red 2
Orange 3
Yellow 4
Green 5
Blue 6
Violet 7
Grey 8
White 9

First color = digit
Second color=digit
Third color= power of ten
Fourth colour =tolerance
Tolerance values are :
Brown 1
Red 2
Orange 3
Yellow 4
Gold 5
Silver 10
None 20

Vinay said:   1 decade ago
"BBROY went to Great Britain to get Very Good Wife with Gold and Silver" ya its crct memorize it its also find out by ulta alta method like

red col-our code is 2 and orange colour code is 3 so (5\23) u will get ans 0.217 u get ans 2.2 like that k guys

Rajesh Kumar said:   1 decade ago
Memorizing line is

"BBROY went to Great Britain to get Very Good Wife with Gold and Silver".

Capital letters represent color codes in sequence!

Anand said:   1 decade ago
Red-3,orange-4,orange-4,silver=10% of Resistance color code,
344/10=34.4,
According to ohm's law I=V/R=50/34.4=2.2

S.gobimohanraj said:   1 decade ago
In resistor the first color mean the value first digit that
Red - 2
Orange also mean the value,
Orange - 3
but that next on Orange mean the power of 10
Orange - 10^3
that color code silver mean that with stand power of resistor +/- 10%.
u can take another one Example like
"brown Red Yellow silver" mean the resistor value is
Brown - 1
Red - 2
Yellow - 10^4
silver - +/- 10%
the Resistor value = 120 kilo ohms.

Veena said:   1 decade ago
What about the colour code silver? please give me explanation.

Lavanya said:   1 decade ago
Resistor values can be known by colour band.
0 black
1 blue
2 red
3 orange
4 yellow
5 green
6 blue
7 violet
8 grey
9 white

Resistor value is given by 1st 3 bands.
Start from left most band,3rd value is a power of 10..
Ans: red(2),orange(3),orange(10^3).. so value becoms 23*10^3

Thenmozhi said:   1 decade ago
THANKS...... Now i'm very clear with the colour codes....


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