GotCoffee said:
I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?
Thanks,
Why in the world do you think a mnemonic is necessary?
They require someone to remember the slogan, and then they have
to figure out the lookup.
"Oh, there's a red band, let me see what was the slogan, okay "r"
is the second letter, that must be a 2".
It gets worse as you deal with the higher numbers, since one has
to go through the sequence further.
You are just thinking in terms of a beginner, but in trying to
get a mnemonic you are preventing the kid from getting any better
than a beginner when it comes to color code. The mnemonic is
not about knowing the color code, it's about remember the sequence
of the numbers.
Give the kid some resistors, and a color code chart, and let him
sort the resistors. The practice of figuring out which is which
will help him to remember the code.
Then, when he sees a red band, he will immediately know it's a "2",
rather than having to do some mental lookup.
When I was a kid, I didn't even know about the famous mnemonics,
so I didn't waste time with them. I needed to know what the resistor
values were, so I naturally looked them up. And the practice meant
that I learned the code.
Michael