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Ohm Bands

4.75 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Yellow · Violet · Green · 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.

475×0.01±1%
Yellow4Violet7Green5Silver×0.01Brown±1%

Nominal

4.75 Ω

4.75 ohms

Real range at ±1%

4.7025 Ω – 4.7975 Ω

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Yellow1st digit — 4
2Violet2nd digit — 7
3Green3rd digit — 5
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 V695 mA2.29 W5 W
5 V1.05 A5.26 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
12 V2.53 A30.3 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
24 V5.05 A121 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink

What you can actually get

Parts made

25

705th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0104

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±10%

4 grades in all

Packages: 0805, 0603, 2512, 0402, 1206, 1210, 0201, 0612. Ratings: 50mW to 13W.

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

$0.37

$0.037 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00591

each, but only from 50,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

100,609

across 2 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 6.3× 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 1/4 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RMCF1206FT4R75 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

4R8· three-digit, nearest only

4R75· four-digit, precision parts

66A· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 4.75 Ω — 4R8 means 4.8 Ω. A part at this value is marked 4R75.

If you only have E24

YellowVioletGoldGold

4.7 Ω is the nearest four-band value — -1.1% 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 4.75 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 4.75 Ω when combined.