Peter Cook 6 | 28/07/2022 19:23:45 |
462 forum posts 113 photos | I have a dead LED batten. Opening it up I found that a wire wound resistor had overheated - and gone open circuit. However I cant figure out what resistance it was supposed to be. It's a 5W(?) series resistor between the incoming 240v mains and the control circuit. The colour code seems to be Red-Black-Gold-Gold-Black which beats me. Two gold bands seems to have escaped my code charts. As has a black tolerance band. But Black as the first digit also seems wrong! Can someone with more electronics experience possibly give me an idea of what It might be. Thanks |
Les Jones 1 | 28/07/2022 19:46:31 |
2292 forum posts 159 photos | This will be a fusible resistor that forms the function of a fuse.There will be other failed components that have caused this resistor to fail. You will need to identify and replace ALL the components that have failed. Les.
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Andrew Johnston | 28/07/2022 19:47:03 |
![]() 7061 forum posts 719 photos | A wirewound non-precision resistor is unlikely to use four bands to determine value. To me the leftmost band looks brown rather than red. So I take the resistor to be as follows, from the left: Value: Brown Black Gold - 10x0.1 = 1 ohm Tolerance: Gold - 5% The rightmost black band could be temp coefficient, in which case it is 250ppm/K, ie, not very good. Andrew |
noel shelley | 28/07/2022 19:47:33 |
2308 forum posts 33 photos | 20 Ohms ? 5% and 5watt ! Noel |
Anthony Knights | 28/07/2022 19:48:09 |
681 forum posts 260 photos | Gold as a multiplier is x 0.1 ohms. Gold as tolerance is 5%. That would make your resistor 2 ohms if it wasn't for the 4th black band. Don't know what that is there for.**LINK** |
peak4 | 28/07/2022 21:07:50 |
![]() 2207 forum posts 210 photos | I believe the final black band indicates that it is non inductively wound. |
Peter Cook 6 | 28/07/2022 21:43:50 |
462 forum posts 113 photos | Thanks folks. Mystery solved, the fusible resistor suggestion led to Queen Mao Electronic - Products - Resistor Color Code That site says "If an additional fifth band is black, the resistor is wire wound resistor. If an additional fifth band is white, the resistor is fusible resistor." I had not seen that before. So it's probably a 1 (or possibly 2) ohm 5% wire wound 5 watt resistor. I can't see any signs of damage elsewhere on the board. I am thinking that the sort of power it would take to blow that resistor would have left some sort of evidence on the rest of the board which is mainly surface mounted IC's and resistors. I might venture a repair. The unit has been replaced by the supplier under warranty, so it's an academic exercise Thanks again. |
John Reese | 30/07/2022 02:32:24 |
![]() 1071 forum posts | A mnemonic for remembering the order of colors: Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly. |
Nicholas Farr | 30/07/2022 09:01:43 |
![]() 3988 forum posts 1799 photos | Hi, another way to remember the order of colours and without incriminating anyone by fact or hypothetically is; 0 blackberries, 1 brown bear, 2 red roses, 3 oranges, 4 yellow yachts, 5 green grasses, 6 blue-bells, 7 violet violins, 8 grey graylings and 9 white whales. Regards Nick. Edited By Nicholas Farr on 30/07/2022 09:03:49 |
Steve Neighbour | 30/07/2022 11:44:33 |
135 forum posts 1 photos | Posted by John Reese on 30/07/2022 02:32:24:
A mnemonic for remembering the order of colors: Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly. Which equated to Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Grey, Blue, Violet, Green, White (I think) I was taught a different one to that back in the politically incorrect 70's Probably can't repeat that nowadays (first word was 'Black' and V = 'virgin' I'm sure those old enough will remember the rest !! |
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