Do you "colour-code" your wiring?

[Rob Strand]

The short version: I emphasized that they were being tested on their ability to understand the code, not their ability to discern the colors.  I used to do just fine reading the color bands on beige 5% tolerance
resistors, but I almost never trust myself reading the blue 1% ones.

I like your teaching style.  Memorizing stuff is a waist of time.  I read the resistors by sight as a whole.  I don't even think about the colors.  That's not an achievement.   It's a product of looking at the stupid things for the 45 years or so.

There's nothing wrong with using a meter.  It's only a slight inconvenience.   Reading codes is good if you are looking at parts on a board because in that case you can't trust the meter to measure it correctly in circuit.

At work we had SMD resistors which were *not* marked with the value but with another code like AE5.   Total pain in the butt.

[Mark Hammer]

"Chroma deficient" is not really disrespectful, just confusing to those unfamiliar with more technical terms.  And, given that there are several varieties of "chroma deficiency" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness ), depending on what sorts of cones are less plentiful, it's probably more appropriate to talk about "spectral dips".

One of the profs in a department I was working in years ago had an unspecified (at least to me) form of colour-blindness.  Apparently, he and his wife had worked out a numerical coding system that let him know what articles of clothing would "go" with what others.  He was a pretty snappy dresser, I must say, so I gather it was a good coding system.  Either that, or every attempt to leave the house began with "You're not going out dressed like that, are you?".

Though irrelevant to identifying resistors, there is a taste equivalent as well, referred to as "taste blindness".  Some folks cannot detect certain tastes, primarily certain bitter tastes.

[EBK]

"Chroma deficient" is not really disrespectful

My point exactly (assuming you are commenting on my linked post).  My wife runs a training programming for ophthalmic technicians.  She has trained me to say chroma deficient instead of color blind.  Also, on a similar note, "legally blind" is not used any more, the modern accepted (and more accurate) terminology being "low vision".

[Mark Hammer]

"Chroma balance" was a typical control on colour CRT televisions, and would adjust the relative intensity of the red, blue, and green guns.

[bluebunny]

"You're not going out dressed like that, are you?"
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"taste blindness"

I thought these were the same thing!      At least, according to my daughter...

[duck_arse]

"You're not going out dressed like that, are you?"
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"taste blindness"

I thought these were the same thing!      At least, according to my daughter...

there was a snippet in the paper of a conversation overheard in a fitting-room - "I'm not going to tell you how you look, I want us to remain on speaking terms."

[Mark Hammer]

there was a snippet in the paper of a conversation overheard in a fitting-room - "I'm not going to tell you how you look, I want us to remain on speaking terms."

One of my neighbours down the street became a cabinet minister over the summer.  We chat whenever I would run into her (which is much less frequent now), but we NEVER talk politics.  That's how we remain neighbours.