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Ohm Bands

8.06 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Grey · Black · Blue · 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.

806×0.01±1%
Grey8Black0Blue6Silver×0.01Brown±1%

Nominal

8.06 Ω

8.06 ohms

Real range at ±1%

7.9794 Ω – 8.1406 Ω

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Grey1st digit — 8
2Black2nd digit — 0
3Blue3rd digit — 6
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 V409 mA1.35 W5 W
5 V620 mA3.1 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
12 V1.49 A17.9 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
24 V2.98 A71.5 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink

What you can actually get

Parts made

24

713th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0077

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±1%

3 grades in all

Packages: 0805, 0603, 1206, 0402, 1210, 2010, 2512, 0612. Ratings: 63mW to 1W.

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

$0.26

$0.026 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00318

each, but only from 100,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

238,290

across 6 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 8.2× 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: RC0402FR-078R06L 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

8R1· three-digit, nearest only

8R06· four-digit, precision parts

88A· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 8.06 Ω — 8R1 means 8.1 Ω. A part at this value is marked 8R06.

If you only have E24

GreyRedGoldGold

8.2 Ω is the nearest four-band value — +1.7% 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 8.06 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 8.06 Ω when combined.