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Ohm Bands

8.66 MΩ resistor colour code

Five bands: Grey · Blue · 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.

866×10k±1%
Grey8Blue6Blue6Yellow×10kBrown±1%

Nominal

8.66 MΩ

8,660,000 ohms

Real range at ±1%

8.5734 MΩ – 8.7466 MΩ

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
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 V0.381 µA1.26 µW1/8 W
5 V0.577 µA2.89 µW1/8 W
12 V1.39 µA16.6 µW1/8 W
24 V2.77 µA66.5 µW1/8 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

17

799th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0124

each

Tolerances sold

±0.5% to ±1%

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

$0.21

$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

39,195

across 7 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 ±1%, rated 1/16 W to 1/4 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RC0402FR-078M66L 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

875· three-digit, nearest only

8664· four-digit, precision parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 8.66 MΩ — 875 means 8.7 MΩ. A part at this value is marked 8664.

If you only have E24

WhiteBrownGreenGold

9.1 MΩ 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 MΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

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