roothorick
Active member
If it looks like a resistor, and has color bands like a resistor...
...but it's not a resistor, then what is it?
These are from the gun sensor boards for Big Buck Hunter Pro; not sure if earlier versions use the same board or not. It's marked "L1" on the board; the flipside has SMT resistors marked "R1", "R2", and so on. I have three of these mysterious components, one bad (blown open), one good (at least, the board works with this one present), and one untested (I've got two more "dead" sensor boards I haven't been able to nail down -- I really wish I had an ESR tester...). The color bands are green-blue-red-silver, which if it was a resistor, it would be 5600 Ohms +/-10%, correct? But if I probe the good one with my multimeter, I get 30.6 Ohms. The untested one reads 30.3 Ohms... so either the color bands are wrong, or these are something more than mere resistors. Which, they're not labeled "R3", they're labeled "L1"... Any guesses?
...but it's not a resistor, then what is it?
These are from the gun sensor boards for Big Buck Hunter Pro; not sure if earlier versions use the same board or not. It's marked "L1" on the board; the flipside has SMT resistors marked "R1", "R2", and so on. I have three of these mysterious components, one bad (blown open), one good (at least, the board works with this one present), and one untested (I've got two more "dead" sensor boards I haven't been able to nail down -- I really wish I had an ESR tester...). The color bands are green-blue-red-silver, which if it was a resistor, it would be 5600 Ohms +/-10%, correct? But if I probe the good one with my multimeter, I get 30.6 Ohms. The untested one reads 30.3 Ohms... so either the color bands are wrong, or these are something more than mere resistors. Which, they're not labeled "R3", they're labeled "L1"... Any guesses?

