<<Nice to know that standards exist. Personally, for multichannel work,
I'm happy to follow the resistor colour code, using heatshrink tubing
(like umashankar, I already know it - in fact, it's burnt into my
brain!).>>
The problem, from my perspective, with using colors beyond simple
primary hues, is that 10-15 per cent of the male population is
afflicted with a hereditary color discrimination deficiency, commonly
referred to as color-blindness, although blindness plays no part in
it. I intellectually know the resistor color code, but on any visual
sample as small as the case of a resistor I find it nearly impossible
to properly identify at least three of the values. For multichannel
work I'm perfectly comfortable with numbers, while generally assured
of making errors when relying on colors. With numbers, or words
(fortunately L & R works in English as well as German) any possible
confusion is eliminated.
Scott Fraser
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