Resistor color code chart http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~lucien/Electronic/resistor.html --[|1| |2| |3| |4| |5|]-- 1 = 1st digit 2 = 2nd digit 3 = Multiplier 4 = Tolerance, ie. how close to the stated value it is. red 2% gold 5% silver 10% none 20% 5 = Reliability (optional, usually for military marking) Digit Color Multiplier - silver 0.01 - gold 0.1 0 black 1 1 brown 10 2 red 100 3 orange 1k 4 yellow 10k 5 grey 100k 6 blue 1M 7 violet 10M 8 grey - 9 white -