6.67%
brown, red, brown, silver = 120 ohms
A 5 percent tolerance resistor would only have two significant digits in its stated value, so we are talking about 82000 ohms plus or minus 5%. The coloured bands would be grey (8), red (2), orange (times 1000), and gold (5%).
red 2, black 0, red 102, red 2%. 20 x 102 with 2% tol.
242 ohms INCLUDES initial tolerance assuming no thermal drift aging etc
6.67%
A 1 ohm 20% tolerance resistor should not exceed 1.2 ohms actual resistance.
brown, red, brown, silver = 120 ohms
Resistor tolerance is how accurate the resistor value is. You may have a 10% tolerance, 820 ohm resistor, which means the actual value of resistance is 820 ohms +/- 82 ohms. If you design a circuit that has very stringent requirements for resistor values, you may need to purchase a resistor that has a smaller tolerance (like 5, 2, 1, .5%). The smaller the tolerance, the more expensive it will be (generally).
Resistor value is defined by the Resistance the resistor offers in Kilo ohms/ohms value given by color codes on the resistor.
An allowable amount of variation on either side of specified measure. If a resistor is labelled as 100 ohms, with 20% tolerance, it might be anywhere from 80 to 120 ohms. If a resistor is labelled as 100 ohms with 10% tolerance, it should range between 90 and 110 ohms. If a resistor is labelled 100 ohm with 5% tolerance, it could vary between 95 and 105 ohms. A tolerance is both ways, if a measure has 10% tolerance, then the total variation is 20%, plus 10 added to minus 10. If you are talking about variation to one side alone, the term is "deviation". If a resistor is supposed to be 100 ohms and actually tests at 105 ohms, it deviates by 5%, but is within allowable variation if it is specified to be within 5% tolerance.
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A 5 percent tolerance resistor would only have two significant digits in its stated value, so we are talking about 82000 ohms plus or minus 5%. The coloured bands would be grey (8), red (2), orange (times 1000), and gold (5%).
15 k ohms with a 10% tolerance.
The resistor colored yellow yellow red has a resistance value of 44 kΩ with a tolerance of 2%.
The plus-minus limits of a resistor's marked value are referred to as its tolerance. Tolerance indicates the acceptable range of variation from the specified resistance value, usually expressed as a percentage. For example, a resistor with a marked value of 100 ohms and a tolerance of ±5% can have an actual resistance between 95 ohms and 105 ohms. Tolerance helps in determining how closely a resistor's actual resistance matches its rated value.
220 ohms with a 10 percent tolerance. Red is 2 and brown is 1. Brown is in the multiplier band so it is 10 times the value in the first two bands. Silver is in the tolerance band. Gold would have been a %5 tolerance device.