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Ohm Bands

14.7 kΩ resistor colour code

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

147×100±1%
Brown1Yellow4Violet7Red×100Brown±1%

Nominal

14.7 kΩ

14,700 ohms

Real range at ±1%

14.553 kΩ – 14.847 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
2Yellow2nd digit — 4
3Violet3rd digit — 7
4RedMultiplier — ×100
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 V224 µA741 µW1/8 W
5 V340 µA1.7 mW1/8 W
12 V816 µA9.8 mW1/8 W
24 V1.63 mA39.2 mW1/8 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

88

366th most of 1,465 values

In stock

40

across 1 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0017

each

Tolerances sold

±0.01% to ±1%

5 grades in all

Packages: 1206, 0603, 0402, 0805, 1210, 2512, 2010, SMD,3.2x1.6mm. Ratings: 50mW to 6W.

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

$0.14

$0.014 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00185

each, but only from 500,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

1,313,202

across 21 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 7.6× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

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

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RT0402FRE0714K7L 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

153· three-digit, nearest only

1472· four-digit, precision parts

17E· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 14.7 kΩ — 153 means 15 kΩ. A part at this value is marked 1472.

If you only have E24

BrownGreenOrangeGold

15 kΩ 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 14.7 kΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 14.7 kΩ when combined.