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Ohm Bands

8.66 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Grey · Blue · 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.

866×0.01±1%
Grey8Blue6Blue6Silver×0.01Brown±1%

Nominal

8.66 Ω

8.66 ohms

Real range at ±1%

8.5734 Ω – 8.7466 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
2Blue2nd digit — 6
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 V381 mA1.26 W5 W
5 V577 mA2.89 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
12 V1.39 A16.6 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
24 V2.77 A66.5 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink

What you can actually get

Parts made

26

694th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0051

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±1%

3 grades in all

Packages: 0805, 0603, 1206, 0402, 1210, 0612, 2512, 01005. 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

$0.23

$0.023 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00252

each, but only from 100,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

102,004

across 4 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 9.1× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±1%, rated 1/20 W to 1/8 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RMCF0402FT8R66 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

8R7· three-digit, nearest only

8R66· four-digit, precision parts

91A· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 8.66 Ω — 8R7 means 8.7 Ω. A part at this value is marked 8R66.

If you only have E24

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9.1 Ω is the nearest four-band value — +5.1% 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 8.66 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 8.66 Ω when combined.