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Ohm Bands

33.2 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Orange · Orange · Red · 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.

332×0.1±1%
Orange3Orange3Red2Gold×0.1Brown±1%

Nominal

33.2 Ω

33.2 ohms

Real range at ±1%

32.868 Ω – 33.532 Ω

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Orange1st digit — 3
2Orange2nd digit — 3
3Red3rd digit — 2
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 V99.4 mA328 mW1 W
5 V151 mA753 mW2 W
12 V361 mA4.34 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
24 V723 mA17.3 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink

What you can actually get

Parts made

76

504th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0026

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±1%

4 grades in all

Packages: 0603, 1206, 0805, 0402, 1210, 2512, 2010, 0201. Ratings: 50mW to 3W.

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

$0.15

$0.015 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00127

each, but only from 100,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

6,509,182

across 21 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 11.8× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±1%, rated 1/20 W to 1/2 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: CR0402-FX-33R2GLF by Bourns 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

330· three-digit, nearest only

33R2· four-digit, precision parts

51H· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 33.2 Ω — 330 means 33 Ω. A part at this value is marked 33R2.

If you only have E24

OrangeOrangeBlackGold

33 Ω is the nearest four-band value — -0.6% 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 33.2 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 33.2 Ω when combined.