Find a Retailer SHOP PRODUCT MENU BLOG find products, tutorials, etc... HOME / P R O D U C T C A T E G O R I E S LEARN 0 SUPPORT EDUCATION / SWAG / SPARKFUN RESISTOR CHART STICKER SparkFun Resistor Chart Sticker SWG-10108 DESCRIPTION FEATURES Red background with white contrast lettering Adhesive-backed Highly portable Lightweight Reliable Negligible error rate Extremely low power consumption images are CC BY 2.0 SHARE COMMENTS 37 REVIEWS 0 Customer Comments Log in or register to post comments. SomeGuy123 / about 7 years ago / Will you be releasing a breakout board for this? 5 RobertC. / about 7 years ago / 9 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. N.Poole / about 7 years ago / 9 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... N.Poole / about 7 years ago / 3 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... SomeGuy123 / about 7 years ago / 4 I just noticed that the resistor in the picture on this sticker has 4 leads? Madbodger / about 7 years ago / 2 It's so you can use Kelvin connections to accurately measure the resistor to check your work! :) IllogicGate / about 7 years ago / LOG IN 2 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: Need Help? REGISTER FORUM * I'm * jus' * kiddin' IllogicGate / about 7 years ago / 2 Oh, I just realized! What if it actually has 2 leads and the 4 lines are to mark the outlines of the 2 leads... IllogicGate / about 7 years ago / 1 But of course they're not. N.Poole / about 7 years ago / 1 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... skumdog / about 6 years ago * / 3 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! sgrace / about 7 years ago / 3 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. mpechner / about 7 years ago / 2 I like the sparkfun red idea. But you need to see the curious inventor business card. ahdavidson / about 7 years ago / Of course, I see that. 2 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! N.Poole / about 7 years ago / 2 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. RobertC. / about 7 years ago / 1 If you are buying resistors with that high tolerance and temperature ratings, I don't think this chart is for you. Also, it's , and no one is forcing you to buy it. N.Poole / about 7 years ago / 1 Also I was poking fun at Davidson :/ ...I like the sticker Rob, really I do! RobertC. / about 7 years ago / 1 Just checking :-) We get baffling comments at times. Nate / about 7 years ago / 1 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. ahdavidson / about 7 years ago / A resistor identification tool that isn't in color? Really? 2 Kevin Vermeer / about 7 years ago / 5 You can have it in any color you want, as long as that color is red... RobertC. / about 7 years ago / well played. 2 Blacklab1 / about 7 years ago / 1 and your Model T in Black bdwyer / about 7 years ago / 3 I'm getting one for my roomate...he's actually color blind :0) They should make resistors with brail code IllogicGate / about 7 years ago / 2 I think you mean "braille"... RobertC. / about 7 years ago / 2 Red is a color. Fezder / about 4 years ago / 1 `'Extremely low power consumption'` haha, laughed a lot. But, after all, we live in '`green'` earth nowadays... Member #42616 / about 7 years ago / 1 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! Blacklab1 / about 7 years ago / 1 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. mbrown9412 / about 7 years ago / 1 Do we have a datasheet for this? CJG / about 7 years ago / 1 Ahh .. another item that should be thrown in with resistor orders .. Like over 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. ahdavidson / about 7 years ago / But seriously, SFE, the sticker is a cool idea. 1 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 RobertC. / about 7 years ago / the colors are written out. 1 MattTheGeek / about 7 years ago / 2 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. Klone38 / about 7 years ago / 2 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 No-one / about 7 years ago / 1 Good idea but how do you then compare them to the resistor? stilldavid / about 7 years ago / 3 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! START SOMETHING. 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