• rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I made a language-agnostic guide to reading color-coded resistors:

    • Ajikeshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      3 months ago

      still uses the ANSI symbol for the resistor and not the international symbol as described in IEC 60617

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Any electrician worth the name should be able to read both ANSI and IEC diagrams. Besides, 60617 was never formally adopted as a replacement for ANSI conventions. I live in an area where the customary symbols are a variant of IEC, but ANSI is still widely used in the electronics industry.

        • Ajikeshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          i only ever see the “squiggly” ansi symbol for resistors in anything related to the US market… my perception is that most of the world uses the rectangle…

          a map of which symbol is most dominant in which country could be interesting though