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This handy resistor code sticker allows you to decipher the color coded bands on resistors and determine their value. It measures about 4" x 5" and is adhesive-backed for sticking to your wall, workbench, or coworker.
- Red background with white contrast lettering
- Adhesive-backed
- Highly portable
- Lightweight
- Reliable
- Negligible error rate
- Extremely low power consumption
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Will you be releasing a breakout board for this?
Yes, but it's proven VERY difficult to reflow. We don't have a full datasheet for the sticker, but it seems that it doesn't tolerate our usual reflow map. We will have to use a much lower temperature solder paste. These might be slugs even as none of them respond to code.
If they turn out to be useless will you be selling them at reduced price? Worst comes to worst they wouldn't make bad stickers...
who, big negative rates on that, I guess people are serious about their stickers here...
...I used to think I was so good at sarcasm...
I just noticed that the resistor in the picture on this sticker has 4 leads?
It's so you can use Kelvin connections to accurately measure the resistor to check your work! :)
Yeah, who made that mistake? I want to know so I can buy one, write all over it poking fun at the fact that it has 4 leads!!1!ONE!1!! and stick it on his window.
Disclaimer:
* I'm
* jus'
* kiddin'
Oh, I just realized! What if it actually has 2 leads and the 4 lines are to mark the outlines of the 2 leads...
But of course they're not.
lol, maybe it's some kinda weird SIL resistor...
Anyway, I'm buildin' my order for next week and this is definitely goin' on the "pile," I've got a cigar box full of stray resistors I collected working at "The Shack" and it'd be nice to slap this on the inside lid.
...I'm eyein' one of those sweet lab coats for my next order too... hmmm...
Since you already have the design made up for the back of your resistor kit. Why don't you make the back of the resistor kit a sticker? Or make a sticker that looks like the back of the resistor kit. I would buy one of these if the colors matched their word representations. Make it look just like this... http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/images/products/10969-03.jpg ... then I will buy five of em!
To be honest, my iPod Touch has 3 programs that does the color code for me, but I keep forgetting to keep it charged. This will be handy on the back side of the iPod... Or maybe a notebook...
I think I need to buy a handful so if I forget where I stick them, I can put a new one up.
I like the sparkfun red idea. But you need to see the curious inventor business card.
Of course, I see that.
But my point is that if you have to stop to read the name of the color, rather than just see the color, it will take that much longer and be that much less useful.
I would much rather pay a little more for something lots more useful.
In fact, for a buck, I can print out something in color on sticky labels and use that.
Gee, maybe I wil!
And... And what if the resistor has 5 or 6 bands!? How am I supposed to find out the tolerance... or the temperature coefficient!?!?
...That is unless this was just supposed to be a fun and cool sticker to add to my collection of geeky workbench trinkets and not a hardened reference material like those found in your average engineering textbook...
...couldn't be, though.
If you are buying resistors with that high tolerance and temperature ratings, I don't think this chart is for you. Also, it's $1, and no one is forcing you to buy it.
Also I was poking fun at Davidson :/
...I like the sticker Rob, really I do!
Just checking :-) We get baffling comments at times.
For sure! There are many charts and calculators out there. This is one of my favorites:
http://www.dannyg.com/examples/res2/resistor.htm
This sticker is just a quick reference.
A resistor identification tool that isn't in color?
Really?
You can have it in any color you want, as long as that color is red...
well played.
and your Model T in Black
I'm getting one for my roomate...he's actually color blind
:0)
They should make resistors with brail code
I think you mean "braille"...
Red is a color.
''Extremely low power consumption'' haha, laughed a lot. But, after all, we live in ''green'' earth nowadays...
You do realize that a viewer could just print out a picture of the product and wouldn't need to buy one??? just add scotch tape!
I still think it would have been cool if they put it on a refrigerator magnet. Then I could put it next to my Bill of Rights Magnet.
Do we have a datasheet for this?
Ahh .. another item that should be thrown in with resistor orders .. Like over $10 in resistors or something.
I think I could use an extra one of these once in a while , if only to replace a torn or faded one.
But seriously, SFE, the sticker is a cool idea.
But how is possibly useful at all, with something that is inherently a color recognition task, to have NO ability to recognize resistors by their color schemes?
http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/basics/resistor-color-code.htm
the colors are written out.
The human brain works faster comparing colors than reading and then comparing words to a color.
I like it in Sparkfun Red, However i would love to see a color version.
You are correct but for what purpose? it's not like you need that extra speed when putting together a project or a kit. so really there is no difference between colored and labled except for personal preference or a vision disabilty.
I'm color blind and it really bugs me when i see a resistor chart in only color, so i think this is a very good idea because everyone can read and use it
Good idea but how do you then compare them to the resistor?
I've used DanKam with some success in identifying resistors. That, and once it's out of the value-labeled baggie I usuall consider it a loss and leave it in tech support :)
Deuteranopes unite!