EN6000 Electrical Fundamentals

Class Exercise on measurement of resistances

Name of Student: ID:
Aim:
 To measure the resistance of a resistor.
 To obtain the value of the resistors from different types of standard codes.

Objectives:
 The students will learn to read and obtain the basic standard codes written on a resistor. They
also apply measurement techniques to measure the resistance of a resistor.

Apparatus Required:
Multimeter, Connecting wires, Different types of Resistors

Resistance Measurement using Multimeter:

Do the connection as shown below.

Resistor

Multimeter as Ohmmeter

 Connect the Ω lead and Ground lead in Multimeter to a resistor provided to you using
connecting wires as shown in the picture above.
 Switch on the power supply of the Multimeter. Set the Multimeter to read ohm with
appropriate range.
 Note the resistance readings of various resistances given to you by your tutor and enter these
measured values in the given table.

# Resistance Unit
Value
1
2
3
4
5

Tutor’s initial

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Calculation of Resistance value from its color code:

Find the resistance value of a resistor from its color code. Refer the chart given below to find your
answer.

Min = Resistance value

Code of Colour Band 1

Code of Colour Band 3

Code of Colour Band 4

Code of Colour Band 2

Max Resistance value

Measured value from

obtained from codes
Code of Multiplier

Code of Tolerance

Resistance Value

% Deviation
+ Tolerance

Multimeter
–Tolerance
Example of a 5 47000+940 47000-940
4 7 0 -NA- 100 2% 47kΩ 47.22 kΩ 0.47%
band colour resistor =47.94 kΩ =46.06 kΩ

Resistor 1

Resistor 2

Resistor 3

Resistor 4

Resistor 5

Tutor’s initial

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Identification of Resistance value from its BS (British Standard) code:

You will be provided with 5 resistors on which their corresponding BS code value is written. You have to
refer to slides “Electrical components – Resistors” in Moodle to find the resistance value. The tolerance
letter coding has to be taken in to account in case your resistor code contains tolerance code.

# BS Code Value Actual Value of Measured from Tolerance % Deviation

written on the the resistor Multimeter in ( )
resistor in ( )
1
2
3
4
5

Identification of Resistance value of Surface Mount Resistors from its code:

You will be provided with 5 surface mount resistors on which their corresponding code value is written.
You have to refer Apendix-1 to find the resistance value.

# Code Value Actual Value of Measured from % Deviation

written on the the resistor Multimeter in ( )
resistor in ( )
1
2
3
4
5

Question:
1. What is tolerance of a resistor?

2. There are two resistors whose tolerances are 1% and 5% respectively. Which one of them will give
you less value of percentage deviation when you measure it?

Tutor’s initial

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