How can I find out the value of this burnt-out resistor from a power supply?
I've tried a few online resistor calculators and every single of them gives different values ranging from 0.1 ohms to one gigaohm. I've tried substituting gray for silver, reading the bands from both directions and leaving out the last band. My multimeter gives readings over 2 MOhms.
Edit: The resistor was on the hot primary side of the power supply, residing between the transformer and some SMDs on an otherwise through-hole design. A 0.1 ohm shunt resistor for current sensing is a likely candidate. Looks like many if not most online resistor calculators freak out when they see a gold or silver band where they would expect a normal color.
Best Answer
Looks like brown black silver gold black.
According to this web page, if the fourth band is gold or silver, the 5th band is temperature coefficient.
That makes this 0.1 ohm, 5%, 250 ppm/degree K, which makes perfect sense for something like an overcurrent sense shunt.