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Ohm Bands

Series and parallel

Series adds. Parallel divides. Enter your values and read both at once — the answer you want is often the one you were not computing.

Values in ohms. Use 4k7, 4.7k or 4700 — all three work.

In series

In parallel

Two things worth knowing

Two equal resistors in parallel give half the value, and twice the power handling — that is the usual reason to do it. And a parallel total is always smaller than the smallest resistor in the set, so if your answer is bigger, you added when you meant to divide.