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Ohm Bands

715 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Violet · Brown · Green · Black · 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.

715×1±1%
Violet7Brown1Green5Black×1Brown±1%

Nominal

715 Ω

715 ohms

Real range at ±1%

707.85 Ω – 722.15 Ω

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Violet1st digit — 7
2Brown2nd digit — 1
3Green3rd digit — 5
4BlackMultiplier — ×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 V4.62 mA15.2 mW1/8 W
5 V6.99 mA35 mW1/8 W
12 V16.8 mA201 mW1/2 W
24 V33.6 mA806 mW2 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

90

340th most of 1,465 values

In stock

31,180

across 3 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0014

each

Tolerances sold

±0.01% to ±1%

5 grades in all

Packages: 0805, 0402, 0603, 1206, 1210, 0201, 2512, 2010. 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

$0.25

$0.025 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00326

each, but only from 50,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

494,777

across 3 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 7.7× 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 1/10 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RC0603FR-07715RL 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

721· three-digit, nearest only

7150· four-digit, precision parts

83C· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 715 Ω — 721 means 720 Ω. A part at this value is marked 7150.

If you only have E24

BlueGreyBrownGold

680 Ω is the nearest four-band value — -4.9% 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 715 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 715 Ω when combined.