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Ohm Bands

1.47 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Brown · Yellow · Violet · Silver · 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.

147×0.01±1%
Brown1Yellow4Violet7Silver×0.01Brown±1%

Nominal

1.47 Ω

1.47 ohms

Real range at ±1%

1.4553 Ω – 1.4847 Ω

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Brown1st digit — 1
2Yellow2nd digit — 4
3Violet3rd digit — 7
4SilverMultiplier — ×0.01
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 V2.24 A7.41 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
5 V3.4 A17 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
12 V8.16 A98 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
24 V16.3 A392 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink

What you can actually get

Parts made

12

853rd most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0058

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±1%

Packages: 0805, 0603, 0402, 0201, 0612, 1206. Ratings: 50mW to 750mW.

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

$0.30

$0.030 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00412

each, but only from 50,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

75,196

across 3 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 7.3× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±1%, rated 1/16 W to 1/8 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RK73H1JTTD1R47F by KOA Speer Electronics, Inc. — 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

1R5· three-digit, nearest only

1R47· four-digit, precision parts

17A· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 1.47 Ω — 1R5 means 1.5 Ω. A part at this value is marked 1R47.

If you only have E24

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1.5 Ω is the nearest four-band value — +2.0% 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 1.47 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 1.47 Ω when combined.