Reading Resistor Values

Note: If you are not familiar with units please read the units article and then come back to this one.

The instructions for reading readings are in both the .pdf file and the .xls file which is contained in a .zip file. They both convey the same information. The excel version is nice because you can copy and paste your resistor in question into the and the formula will tell you the value of the resistor.

Reading Resistors (PDF)
Reading Resistors (Excel)

As a reminder, here is the table of units. The most common units for capacitors are uF and pF, since a normal Farad is a huge amount.

Prefix	Name	Multiplication Factor(exponential form)	Multiplication Factor (normal form)
M	Mega	10^6	1,000,000
k	kilo	10^3	1,000
none	none	10^0	1
m	milli	10^-3	.001
u	micro	10^-6	.000 001
n	nano	10^-9	.000 000 001
p	pico	10^-12	.000 000 000 001