11/45 is alive (I'm singing "who's johnny")

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:46:57 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:

> > 
> > > G, S, and P are, of course, Gold == 5%, Silver == 10% and Plain ==
> > > unspecified tolerance
> > 
> > If by "Plain" you mean "no fourth band", I thought that indicated
> > "20%", not "unspecified".
> 
> That's what I believe too.
> 
> -tony

'Unspecified' would leave a rather wide margin for the resistor
manufacturer.

I used to joke about why there's no tolerance band on 'zero ohm jumpers'
(short-circuit shunts built with the same package outline as a resistor,
often used in instances where a board-stuffing machine needs to put
*something* in a hole where a resistor might have gone.  Usually they
have one black band in place of the regular 'resistance value' bands).  

But what's the tolerance on a zero ohm jumper if it measures 20
milliohms on an accurate low-resistance bridge?  (divide overflow)