9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
10:41 p.m.
On Thursday 08 November 2007 16:33, Tony Duell wrote:
The colors he said were "green, black red". Dunno if you'd call that a
preferred value, but I've seen such.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
Reminds me of
a question that got thrown at me during a recent job
interview.
The guy threw three colors at me and asked me what value resistor that=20
represented, which was fairly trivial to answer. Then he asked me
what tolerance it was. I responded that he didn't mention a tolerance
band, at which point he told me that there wasn't one.
"20%, though I haven't run into one of those in quite a while..."
Did he pack a set of colours that could have been a prefered value in the
20% series? I would have been worried if he'd said something like
'Orange, White, Red', since AFAIK 3.9k resistors never made with a 20%
tolerance...