resistor colour code mnemonic, my attempt

[HackedFridgeMagnet]

Hi
I learned the racist/rape mnemonic early in my career and still can't manage to forget it.
So I was trying to give students a mnemonic that they might actually remember, and would not scar them for life.
here are the ones from Wikipedia which I wasn't satisfied with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_mnemonics


Here is my attempt.

black is night
brown is clay
2 infra red
and violet rays
8 shades of grey
till the white of day

it relies on the knowledge of the order of the visible light spectrum which I always found useful anyway.

any comments? is it useful? or is my poetic licence revoked?

 

[GreyWoolfe]

I learned the bad beer rots our young guts but vodka goes well mnemonic.  If yours works for you, great.  It's whatever floats your poetic boat. 

[Mr.B]

A bit boring, but I originally learned it with a fictitious blokes name in the middle: Roy G. Biv
Ignore the lower case i

Black Brown ROY G BiV Grey White

[Brumby]

A bit boring, but I originally learned it with a fictitious blokes name in the middle: Roy G. Biv
Ignore the lower case i

Black Brown ROY G BiV Grey White

That's almost identical to the way I learned it (self taught).

[TheSteve]

Better
Be
Ready
Or
Your
Great
Big
Venture
Goes
West

[xrunner]

Hi
I learned the racist/rape mnemonic early in my career and still can't manage to forget it.

Good luck, I can't forget the original bad one and never will, but I won't repeat it out loud.

[TerraHertz]

For the natural colour spectrum/rainbow there's:
Roy Of York Gave Battle In Vain.
Red=2 Orange=3 Yellow=4 Green=5 Blue=6 Indigo=7 Violet.
Not hard to add the black=0, gray=8, white=9.

[coppercone2]

does anyone even use color codes? can you even tolerate looking in mixed parts bins??

I measure simple components before I insert them as a habit.

I used a color code once, to replace a shorted part in a fried signal generator that I did not have the schematics for. And I used electronics2000.

[Brumby]

Up to and including carbon film resistors - reading colour codes was never a problem for me ... but when those idiotic blue bodied metal film things hit the market, I could have strangled someone.

[Halcyon]

A bit boring, but I originally learned it with a fictitious blokes name in the middle: Roy G. Biv
Ignore the lower case i

Black Brown ROY G BiV Grey White

This is the way it is/was taught in Australian high schools as well. Thanks for the brief trip down memory lane. ;-)

[Brumby]

When I went through High School - this was the only electronics content I encountered ... and that was only for students that went for Level 1 Science (Physics) in the senior years.

[Halcyon]

When I went through High School - this was the only electronics content I encountered ... and that was only for students that went for Level 1 Science (Physics) in the senior years.

I was fortunate enough to go to a selective school which offered electronics as a stand-alone subject. We learnt to solder, use tools like multimeters, implement ICs like 555 timers, learnt about resistance, capacitance etc... Junior years got a small taste of every subject, then in the senior years your chose your electives. I chose electronics and woodworking. We also had technical drawing, metalworking, hospitality (cooking), textiles (sewing), biology, chemistry and physics.

I actually didn't mind high school although sports was a complete waste of time. The sports/physical development teachers carried on like their subjects were the most important thing in the world. I managed to always get out of the lessons (without failing the subject) as I also administered the schools network/servers before they were all handed off to the Department of Education. Good times

[German_EE]

I know the color code by heart but where I always come unstuck are the four band and five band resistors, I've even seen six band resistors on some kit.

[VK5RC]

+1 re a curse on the person who chose blue as the background colour - but the size makes many colours indistinguishable. My fav mnemonic helps a bit with all the Bs.
Black Bull Ran Over Your Garden, Blue Violets Gone West