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953 kΩ resistor colour code

Five bands: White · Green · Orange · Orange · 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.

953×1k±1%
White9Green5Orange3Orange×1kBrown±1%

Nominal

953 kΩ

953,000 ohms

Real range at ±1%

943.47 kΩ – 962.53 kΩ

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

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


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1White1st digit — 9
2Green2nd digit — 5
3Orange3rd digit — 3
4OrangeMultiplier — ×1k
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 V3.46 µA11.4 µW1/8 W
5 V5.25 µA26.2 µW1/8 W
12 V12.6 µA151 µW1/8 W
24 V25.2 µA604 µW1/8 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

72

538th most of 1,465 values

In stock

39,336

across 1 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0025

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±1%

4 grades in all

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

$0.20

$0.020 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.001

each, but only from 80,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

577,769

across 12 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 20.0× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±0.1% and ±1%, rated 1/16 W to 1/8 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RMCF0402FT953K 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

954· three-digit, nearest only

9533· four-digit, precision parts

95F· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 953 kΩ — 954 means 950 kΩ. A part at this value is marked 9533.

If you only have E24

WhiteBrownYellowGold

910 kΩ 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 953 kΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 953 kΩ when combined.