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Ohm Bands

19.1 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Brown · White · Brown · Gold · 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.

191×0.1±1%
Brown1White9Brown1Gold×0.1Brown±1%

Nominal

19.1 Ω

19.1 ohms

Real range at ±1%

18.909 Ω – 19.291 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
2White2nd digit — 9
3Brown3rd digit — 1
4GoldMultiplier — ×0.1
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 V173 mA570 mW2 W
5 V262 mA1.31 W5 W
12 V628 mA7.54 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
24 V1.26 A30.2 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink

What you can actually get

Parts made

51

628th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.009

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±1%

4 grades in all

Packages: 0603, 1206, 0805, 0402, 1210, 1005, 2512, 2010. Ratings: 30mW to 1W.

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

$0.31

$0.031 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00406

each, but only from 100,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

46,361

across 1 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 ±1%, rated 1/10 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: ERJ-2RKF19R1X by Panasonic Industry — 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

190· three-digit, nearest only

19R1· four-digit, precision parts

28H· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 19.1 Ω — 190 means 19 Ω. A part at this value is marked 19R1.

If you only have E24

RedBlackBlackGold

20 Ω is the nearest four-band value — +4.7% 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 19.1 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 19.1 Ω when combined.