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Ohm Bands

4.32 kΩ resistor colour code

Five bands: Yellow · Orange · Red · 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.

432×10±1%
Yellow4Orange3Red2Brown×10Brown±1%

Nominal

4.32 kΩ

4,320 ohms

Real range at ±1%

4.2768 kΩ – 4.3632 kΩ

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Yellow1st digit — 4
2Orange2nd digit — 3
3Red3rd digit — 2
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 V764 µA2.52 mW1/8 W
5 V1.16 mA5.79 mW1/8 W
12 V2.78 mA33.3 mW1/8 W
24 V5.56 mA133 mW1/2 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

114

151st most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0119

each

Tolerances sold

±0.01% to ±1%

6 grades in all

Packages: 1206, 0805, 0603, 0402, 1210, 2512, 1005, MELF-0204. Ratings: 30mW 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

$0.12

$0.012 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00127

each, but only from 100,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

1,507,205

across 30 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 9.4× 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 1/2 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RNCP0603FTD4K32 by Stackpole 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

432· three-digit, nearest only

4321· four-digit, precision parts

62D· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 4.32 kΩ — 432 means 4.3 kΩ. A part at this value is marked 4321.

If you only have E24

YellowOrangeRedGold

4.3 kΩ is the nearest four-band value — -0.5% 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 4.32 kΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 4.32 kΩ when combined.