Wanted some 3k3 Resistors so bought some from Maplin, and they were marked:
Orange, Orange, Black, Red, Red, which to my mind reads....
3 3 0 00 and then +/- 2%
which I would have thought was 33k. However, they insisted it was right (not that they filled me with much confidence, but it is about twenty years since I last had to work this sort of thing out) and I have checked with a meter and they are indeed 3k3, but I still can't work out why.
So, why ??
Orange, Orange, Black, Red, Red, which to my mind reads....
3 3 0 00 and then +/- 2%
which I would have thought was 33k. However, they insisted it was right (not that they filled me with much confidence, but it is about twenty years since I last had to work this sort of thing out) and I have checked with a meter and they are indeed 3k3, but I still can't work out why.
So, why ??