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Ohm Bands

1.33 kΩ resistor colour code

Five bands: Brown · Orange · Orange · Brown · Brown. The first three give the digits — a precision value needs all three — then the multiplier, then how far off the real part may be.

133×10±1%
Brown1Orange3Orange3Brown×10Brown±1%

Nominal

1.33 kΩ

1,330 ohms

Real range at ±1%

1.3167 kΩ – 1.3433 kΩ

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

A 1% precision value. Five bands, not four.


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Brown1st digit — 1
2Orange2nd digit — 3
3Orange3rd digit — 3
4BrownMultiplier — ×10
5BrownTolerance — ±1%

How much it can take

Current and dissipation across the resistor, and the package you need. The suggested rating keeps a factor of two in hand, which is what anyone building a board actually does.

Across itCurrentDissipatedPackage to pick
3.3 V2.48 mA8.19 mW1/8 W
5 V3.76 mA18.8 mW1/8 W
12 V9.02 mA108 mW1/4 W
24 V18 mA433 mW1 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

91

328th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0099

each

Tolerances sold

±0.01% to ±1%

6 grades in all

Packages: 1206, 0805, 0603, 0402, 1210, 2512, 0201, 2010. Ratings: 30mW to 2W.

What ten of them actually cost

The price everyone quotes is the reel price. If you want ten, you cannot buy the reel — and the real figure is usually several times higher per piece.

Ten pieces

$0.13

$0.013 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00196

each, but only from 500,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

1,317,609

across 50 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 6.6× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±0.1% and ±0.5% and ±1%, rated 1/20 W to 1/4 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RT0603FRE071K33L by YAGEO — see it at Digi-Key.

Assembly stock from the JLCPCB library, read 2026-09-24. Retail prices and stock from Digi-Key, read 2026-09-24. Prices move — check the product page before ordering. That is what a board house will place for you — not everything a distributor sells.

The same value, marked differently

Surface mount

132· three-digit, nearest only

1331· four-digit, precision parts

13D· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 1.33 kΩ — 132 means 1.3 kΩ. A part at this value is marked 1331.

If you only have E24

BrownOrangeRedGold

1.3 kΩ is the nearest four-band value — -2.3% off.

Values that can overlap this one

At ±1% the tolerance bands of neighbouring values run into each other. A part sold as one of these could measure the same as a 1.33 kΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 1.33 kΩ when combined.