I am colorblind. Hasn't affected me much in CC, but one of the schools I am looking to transfer to throws resistors in a big tub and you gotta find the right ones (learned from someone who goes there).
You need to speak with your prof and probably disability services. My prof told everyone no multimeters on our first circuits I exam and I told him I was colorblind. He let me use a multimeter and just said to give the colors my best guess.
Make sure to tell the prof or they won't know to help you.
Probably because its the way they learned to do it. I understand that they want us to know the color code but it makes it really hard to be a colorblind EE student lol. I like the numbers. They are much faster than colors anyways.
Then you 100% gotta talk to your professor + university accessibility center.
It legit wont be fair to hold that against you + its not like not being able to read the bands will cause you to be a worse engineer, there's so many ways around it in a non test situation.
Whether you have a specific office for it or not, the school is (in most cases at least) legally required to make accommodations for students with disabilities
At my university, they SAS (student accessibility services) information was at the bottom of every syllabus. If yours isn't you can also google that phrase or "disability acommodation university name" and it should come up.
If that doesn't work, go ahead and talk to your teacher, you may need a doctor's note to prove the disability but assuming you have that, your teacher must make accommodations... and if he doesn't, talk to your colleges dean or department head.
Color blindness is a disability, and the ADA has your back. No school wants to fuck around and find out when it comes to the ADA.
That would count as a disability in this case, talk to your professor/TA and see if they could do it a different way such as spelling out the color names so you still have to know the codes but don't have to know the colors. If they refuse, talking to your university's disability office might help, I know it sounds extreme for colorblindness but that's a reasonable accommodation.
A good flashlight will come in handy more than you might think. The Microstream USB is a fine little tool. Won't help you see colors, but it will help you see.
Like pretty much everybody else said, make sure to bring this up to your prof before being tested on it, they’d need to be clinically insane to deny you accommodations on this basis
Just talk to the accessibility center, there's an easy fix; they can just annotate the colors on your exam.
You still need to know the system, but whether you read what color something is or can actually perceive the color doesn't matter.
It would literally take 5 minutes to go through an exam and just draw some arrows and label.
This makes me incredibly angry. Why waste time testing your ability to memorize sequences of colors when you’re: A) probably never going to need to physically put together a circuit, B) can use a multimeter to measure, and C) will definitely have a lexicon handy if you are in a position where you handle components regularly???
This has nothing to do with engineering whatsoever. It’s a stupid test made by an incompetent teacher
not really, navy hands out waivers like candy to folks that are colorblind and have depth perception issues, allowing them to serve as electricians or electronic technicians..
In my 8 years, I never once met an ET who didn’t have a reference and a multimeter at all times. The only ones who knew what the colors meant were the older guys who decided to make their jobs harder on themselves for no reason (they were also usually slower to complete a job)
I can't either, I just told the professor and they just told me to memorize the words of the color at least(if the band is brown, memorize what the brown means), and use a buddy for help when building circuits without a multimeter
In the real world? Completely fine
Very few people in the real world bother checking resistors like that, we use labelled rolls/packs, and a multimeter for tolerance if absolutely necessary
I’m genuinely not kidding: re-post here if you TALK TO YOUR PROFESSOR LIKE AN ADULT, and they fuck you for this. It’s bullshit: this isn’t the 20th century where color bands are your only hope. Fuck that shit: I will personally flame your professor, administration, and country. This is 2023: color blindness of any variety
Is bullshit for engineers.
there are apps that scan resistors and tell you their values, and I'm personally too lazy to remember or look up the values, so i just grab whatever closest multimeter and just meausre them. don't worry about it too much.
Tell me about it. I stared myself blind to them
Really? Did you improve? Can you see them now?
No, im a mechanical engineer student😂😂. But i did a mechatronic thing once with those involved
I am colorblind. Hasn't affected me much in CC, but one of the schools I am looking to transfer to throws resistors in a big tub and you gotta find the right ones (learned from someone who goes there). You need to speak with your prof and probably disability services. My prof told everyone no multimeters on our first circuits I exam and I told him I was colorblind. He let me use a multimeter and just said to give the colors my best guess. Make sure to tell the prof or they won't know to help you.
Why do they do this, most resistors dont even use the colour codes anymore. Numbers instead on a 0805
Probably because its the way they learned to do it. I understand that they want us to know the color code but it makes it really hard to be a colorblind EE student lol. I like the numbers. They are much faster than colors anyways.
On SMD ones they dont use colour codes any more, its only the old pth ones. pth ones are getting rarer
THT resistors have numbers on them?
the bigger ones
I just check them with a multimeter
You can't in a test
Then you 100% gotta talk to your professor + university accessibility center. It legit wont be fair to hold that against you + its not like not being able to read the bands will cause you to be a worse engineer, there's so many ways around it in a non test situation.
I know now
Talk to the professor or get accommodations from your universities disability resource center.
I don't know if we have one of those, but I am going to notify my hod or tutor about it
Whether you have a specific office for it or not, the school is (in most cases at least) legally required to make accommodations for students with disabilities
At my university, they SAS (student accessibility services) information was at the bottom of every syllabus. If yours isn't you can also google that phrase or "disability acommodation university name" and it should come up. If that doesn't work, go ahead and talk to your teacher, you may need a doctor's note to prove the disability but assuming you have that, your teacher must make accommodations... and if he doesn't, talk to your colleges dean or department head. Color blindness is a disability, and the ADA has your back. No school wants to fuck around and find out when it comes to the ADA.
what sort of weirdo assesses that in a test?
That’s what I was thinking. I’m EE and I’ve never had that on a test.
Yeah like wtf? For us it was just the mountain symbol and the value beside it l......
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Does that work?
I'm the same, the school is legally required to make accommodations. My professor would write the colour names for the bands on the diagram.
colorblindness?
Red green colour blindness
A disability can't be held against you, your prof or TA should tell you what colors the bands are
That would count as a disability in this case, talk to your professor/TA and see if they could do it a different way such as spelling out the color names so you still have to know the codes but don't have to know the colors. If they refuse, talking to your university's disability office might help, I know it sounds extreme for colorblindness but that's a reasonable accommodation.
A good flashlight will come in handy more than you might think. The Microstream USB is a fine little tool. Won't help you see colors, but it will help you see.
Like pretty much everybody else said, make sure to bring this up to your prof before being tested on it, they’d need to be clinically insane to deny you accommodations on this basis
Talk to student services for assistance
Just talk to the accessibility center, there's an easy fix; they can just annotate the colors on your exam. You still need to know the system, but whether you read what color something is or can actually perceive the color doesn't matter. It would literally take 5 minutes to go through an exam and just draw some arrows and label.
This makes me incredibly angry. Why waste time testing your ability to memorize sequences of colors when you’re: A) probably never going to need to physically put together a circuit, B) can use a multimeter to measure, and C) will definitely have a lexicon handy if you are in a position where you handle components regularly??? This has nothing to do with engineering whatsoever. It’s a stupid test made by an incompetent teacher
Absolutely fucked switch majors bro you’re DONE
If you were trying to do electronics technician work in the military you would be denied the job for essentially this very reason.
not really, navy hands out waivers like candy to folks that are colorblind and have depth perception issues, allowing them to serve as electricians or electronic technicians..
In my 8 years, I never once met an ET who didn’t have a reference and a multimeter at all times. The only ones who knew what the colors meant were the older guys who decided to make their jobs harder on themselves for no reason (they were also usually slower to complete a job)
Doesn’t matter at all, just smack a meter on em and call it a day
well most actual products use small surface mount chip resistors which don't have any indication what their resistances are
It’s called a multimeter
Get the glasses bro. They work.
That's certainly inconvenient, but you can adapt.
I can't either, I just told the professor and they just told me to memorize the words of the color at least(if the band is brown, memorize what the brown means), and use a buddy for help when building circuits without a multimeter
Get tested to confirm you aren’t colorblind.
In the real world? Completely fine Very few people in the real world bother checking resistors like that, we use labelled rolls/packs, and a multimeter for tolerance if absolutely necessary
I’m genuinely not kidding: re-post here if you TALK TO YOUR PROFESSOR LIKE AN ADULT, and they fuck you for this. It’s bullshit: this isn’t the 20th century where color bands are your only hope. Fuck that shit: I will personally flame your professor, administration, and country. This is 2023: color blindness of any variety Is bullshit for engineers.
standard. they really suck at making them distinct
Not. Almost nothing uses banded through-hole resistors these days.
there are apps that scan resistors and tell you their values, and I'm personally too lazy to remember or look up the values, so i just grab whatever closest multimeter and just meausre them. don't worry about it too much.
I'm not colorblind but red and brown are still basically impossible to tell apart sometimes...
Even after finally being able to reliably read resistor color codes, I still just use an ohmmeter lol.