“Bad Boys Ravish Only Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly”
When I was in second year high school, we had to memorize this line… Why you ask? Coz electricians are pervs who created this mnemonic for memorizing values of the bands in resistors.
See those colored lines in those resistors? Those determine the resistance (in unit ohms) of each resistor. We had to calculate the total resistance of each resistor based on the values of those colors. Each color stands for a value… and memorizing the mnemonic would help us remember the values.
Black – 0
Brown – 1
Red – 2
Orange – 3
Yellow – 4
Green – 5
Blue – 6
Violet – 7
Grey – 8
White – 9
For the complete guide on how to compute, read this.
Astig no? Ala lang… reminiscing my high school days. I miss my techno boys! 🙁
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Wut d??? Hahahaha…
hahahaha…magamit nga sa board exam. 😉 thanks for the tip.
Waaaaaaa. Akala ko namamalik-mata lang ako, RESISTORS pala talaga.
Weeee, I love those stuff. Lalong lalo na yung 4k7 ohm, 390 ohm, 560 ohm and 5k ohm resistors.
Ideal size ko, yung 1/4 watt para cute!
Hirap naman ata ng pneumonics mo! (tama ba ang spelling?)
Sounds alien to me.. lolz
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Very few newtimers know the last 3 lines in the Bad Boys memory aid.
But, then, I grew up in the era of beeswax capacitors and cotton covered Litz wire. I even owned an 8 track player and a 5-tube radio that worked on the thermionic emission principle.
Thanks for the memories.
-73-
Al Czervic
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I think I used BB ROYGBV GW
I just remembered the BBGW.
YAY!
i kinda remember this in college… pero mas naaalala ko nakasunog ako ng breadboard… and my teammate asked me “ano yung umuusok?”
“OH NO! nasusunod ang breadboard ! there goes my lab deposit fee !”
I was in 3rd year high school when my Teacher asked us to recite that mnemonics.
@jaydj – Which reminds me… maybe I should do a post about the time when we made transformers. INSTANT FIREWORKS!
neat! geeky but interesting.
When I was in high school, were asked to make a model of anything using copperwires and soldering leads, we akso made a buzzer, an AC DC converter and almost (buti na lang wala nang time kasi closing na, Transistor radio.