8 Nov
2007
8 Nov
'07
1:33 p.m.
Reminds me of a question that got thrown at me during
a recent job interv=
iew. =20
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=20
tolerance it was. I responded that he didn't mention a tolerance band, =
at=20
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...
-tony