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Ohm Bands

43.2 kΩ resistor colour code

Five bands: Yellow · Orange · Red · 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.

432×100±1%
Yellow4Orange3Red2Red×100Brown±1%

Nominal

43.2 kΩ

43,200 ohms

Real range at ±1%

42.768 kΩ – 43.632 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
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 V76.4 µA252 µW1/8 W
5 V116 µA579 µW1/8 W
12 V278 µA3.33 mW1/8 W
24 V556 µA13.3 mW1/8 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

91

328th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0024

each

Tolerances sold

±0.05% to ±1%

5 grades in all

Packages: 0805, 1206, 0402, 0603, 1210, 2512, 2010, 0201. Ratings: 30mW to 2W.

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

2,277,631

across 50 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 ±0.1% and ±0.5% and ±1%, rated 1/20 W to 1/6 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: CR0402-FX-4322GLF 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

433· three-digit, nearest only

4322· four-digit, precision parts

62E· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 43.2 kΩ — 433 means 43 kΩ. A part at this value is marked 4322.

If you only have E24

YellowOrangeOrangeGold

43 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 43.2 kΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 43.2 kΩ when combined.