I have one like that that I bought from Radio Shack about 20 years ago. I just tried to find them on their website, looks like they no longer sell them
My electronics instructor was a retired Navy instructor. He taught us the colors code this way, he apologized before hand as the language might offend some, but he assured us that we would never forget it…
Our Dutch teacher learned us a sentence to memorise the first letters of each color and I still have it in my head (and that was 16 years ago)
“Zij BRengt ROzen Op GEErts GRaf Bij Vuil GRIJS Weder”
In fact, if you practice color to number conversion enough, you will no longer see colors on the resistor but you will directly see ‘numbers’. So go practice
This is my way to memorize :
1st : Colours are getting lighter from Black to White : black, brown, red
2nd : From red to violet like the rainbow
3rd : grey, white
ant the rest is just practice, practice, practice…
@ Lutz: Yep I swapped the position of brown and black in my description, that is now fixed. thanks for catching that.
It is interesting how different types of mnumonics work with different people.
I can still remmeber one from school like the name Roy G. Biv for the colors of the rainbow
or “Some Old Hippies Caught Another Hippey Tripping On Acid” for the basic trig functions (Sin = O/H, Cos = A/H, Tan = O/A)
and a few more from my electronics teacher: “ELI the ICE man”, for "voltage(E) leads current(I) in an inductive(L) circuit and Current(I) leads Voltage(E) in a Capacitive(C) circuit. Ohms law of course “E=IR” pronounced as ‘ear’ and "P=IE’ pronounced as 'pie. Of course now that voltage is given the symbol of ‘V’ in most places these last two don’t make as much sense as when voltage was ‘E’ (ElectroMotive Force, or EMF).