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Ohm Bands

97.6 kΩ resistor colour code

Five bands: White · Violet · Blue · Red · 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.

976×100±1%
White9Violet7Blue6Red×100Brown±1%

Nominal

97.6 kΩ

97,600 ohms

Real range at ±1%

96.624 kΩ – 98.576 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
2Violet2nd digit — 7
3Blue3rd digit — 6
4RedMultiplier — ×100
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 V33.8 µA112 µW1/8 W
5 V51.2 µA256 µW1/8 W
12 V123 µA1.48 mW1/8 W
24 V246 µA5.9 mW1/8 W

What you can actually get

Parts made

79

468th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0027

each

Tolerances sold

±0.05% to ±1%

5 grades in all

Packages: 0603, 0805, 1206, 0402, 1210, 2512, 0201, SMD,3.2x1.6mm. Ratings: 50mW 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

$0.0021

each, but only from 100,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

2,032,956

across 50 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 9.5× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±0.1% and ±0.5% and ±1%, rated 1/20 W to 0.21 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RMCF0402FT97K6 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

983· three-digit, nearest only

9762· four-digit, precision parts

96E· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 97.6 kΩ — 983 means 98 kΩ. A part at this value is marked 9762.

If you only have E24

BrownBlackYellowGold

100 kΩ is the nearest four-band value — +2.5% 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 97.6 kΩ — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 97.6 kΩ when combined.