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Ohm Bands

5.36 MΩ resistor colour code

Five bands: Green · Orange · Blue · Yellow · 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.

536×10k±1%
Green5Orange3Blue6Yellow×10kBrown±1%

Nominal

5.36 MΩ

5,360,000 ohms

Real range at ±1%

5.3064 MΩ – 5.4136 MΩ

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Green1st digit — 5
2Orange2nd digit — 3
3Blue3rd digit — 6
4YellowMultiplier — ×10k
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 V0.616 µA2.03 µW1/8 W
5 V0.933 µA4.66 µW1/8 W
12 V2.24 µA26.9 µW1/8 W
24 V4.48 µA107 µW1/8 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

10

866th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0152

each

Tolerances sold

±0.5% to ±1%

Packages: 1206, 2010, 0201, 0603, 0805, 0402. Ratings: 50mW to 750mW.

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

$0.21

$0.021 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00218

each, but only from 100,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

186,899

across 10 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 9.6× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±0.5% and ±1%, rated 1/16 W to 1/4 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RC0402FR-075M36L by YAGEO — 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

545· three-digit, nearest only

5364· four-digit, precision parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 5.36 MΩ — 545 means 5.4 MΩ. A part at this value is marked 5364.

If you only have E24

GreenBlueGreenGold

5.6 MΩ is the nearest four-band value — +4.5% 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 5.36 MΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 5.36 MΩ when combined.