EN 60062:2016

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Marking codes for resistors and capacitors (IEC 60062:2016)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 60062:2016
ICS:
31.040.01 Upori splošno Resistors in general
31.060.01 Kondenzatorji na splošno Capacitors in general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60062
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
October 2016
ICS 31.020 Supersedes EN 60062:2005
English Version
Marking codes for resistors and capacitors
(IEC 60062:2016)
Codes de marquage des résistances et des condensateurs Kennzeichnung von Widerständen und Kondensatoren
(IEC 60062:2016) (IEC 60062:2016)
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Ref. No. EN 60062:2016 E
European foreword
The text of document 40/2465/FDIS, future edition 6 of IEC 60062, prepared by IEC/TC 40
"Capacitors and resistors for electronic equipment" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote
and approved by CENELEC as EN 60062:2016.
The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2017-05-16
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at
national level by publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2019-08-16
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with
the document have to be withdrawn

This document supersedes EN 60062:2005.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60062:2016 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following note has to be added for the standard indicated :
ISO 1043-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 1043-1.
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod),
the relevant EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is
available here: www.cenelec.eu.

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60063 -  Preferred number series for resistors and EN 60063 -
capacitors
IEC 60757 -  Code for designation of colours HD 457 S1 -
ISO 8601 -  Data elements and interchange formats - - -
Information interchange - Representation
of dates and times
IEC 60062 ®
Edition 6.0 2016-07
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
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Marking codes for resistors and capacitors

Codes de marquage des résistances et des condensateurs

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 31.020 ISBN 978-2-8322-3515-7

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references. 6
3 Colour code for fixed resistors . 6
3.1 General rules . 6
3.2 Prescription of code colours . 6
3.3 Methods for marking resistance value and tolerance . 7
3.3.1 Marking of resistance values with two significant numerals . 7
3.3.2 Marking of resistance values with two significant numerals and
tolerance . 8
3.3.3 Marking of resistance values with three significant numerals and
tolerance . 8
3.4 Methods for TCR marking . 9
4 Letter and numeral code for resistance and capacitance values . 10
4.1 General rules . 10
4.2 Resistors . 11
4.2.1 The RKM code system . 11
4.2.2 Three-character code system for resistors . 13
4.2.3 The four-character code system for resistors . 14
4.3 Capacitors . 15
4.3.1 The multiplier code system for capacitors . 15
4.3.2 Three-character code systems for capacitors . 17
5 Letter code for tolerance on capacitance or resistance values . 18
5.1 General rules . 18
5.2 Coding of symmetrical relative tolerances . 18
5.3 Coding of asymmetrical relative tolerances . 19
5.4 Coding of symmetrical absolute tolerances . 19
5.5 Other coding of tolerances . 20
6 Coding of properties specific to capacitors . 20
6.1 General rules . 20
6.2 Coding of the dielectric material of plastic film capacitors . 20
7 Coding of properties specific to resistors . 20
7.1 General rules . 20
7.2 Coding of the temperature coefficient of resistance . 21
8 Date code system for capacitors and resistors . 21
8.1 General rules . 21
8.2 Two-character codes for year and month . 22
8.2.1 Choice of a repetition cycle . 22
8.2.2 Two-character codes for year and month in a twenty-year cycle . 22
8.2.3 Two-character codes for year and month in a ten-year cycle . 23
8.3 Four-character codes for year and week . 23
8.3.1 Choice of a repetition cycle . 23
8.3.2 Fully numerical four-numeral code . 23
8.3.3 Alphanumerical twenty-year cycle code . 24
8.3.4 Alphanumerical ten-year cycle code . 24
8.4 Single-character code for year and month . 24

IEC 60062:2016 © IEC 2016 – 3 –
Annex A (informative) Special three-character code system for resistors . 26
Annex B (informative) Cross-reference for references to the previous edition of this
standard . 28
Bibliography . 30

Figure 1 – Colour marking of a resistor 6,8 kΩ, tolerance ±20 % . 8
Figure 2 – Colour marking of a resistor 750 kΩ, tolerance ±5 % . 8
Figure 3 – Colour marking of a resistor 249 kΩ, tolerance ±1 % . 9
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Figure 4 – Colour marking of a resistor with a 6 band for TCR marking . 9
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Figure 5 – Colour marking of a resistor with an interrupted 6 band for TCR marking . 10
Figure 6 – Colour marking of a resistor using an alternative method of inter-band
colour dots for TCR coding . 10

Table 1 – Code colour prescriptions . 7
Table 2 – Coding of resistance values with up to 3 significant numerals . 12
Table 3 – Fixed length coding of resistance values with up to 3 significant numerals . 13
Table 4 – Coding of resistance values with 4 significant numerals . 13
Table 5 – Coding of resistance values in the three-character code system . 14
Table 6 – Coding of resistance values in the four-character code system . 15
Table 7 – Coding of capacitance values with up to 2 significant numerals . 16
Table 8 – Fixed length coding of capacitance values with up to 2 significant numerals . 16
Table 9 – Coding of capacitance values with 3 significant numerals . 17
Table 10 – Coding of capacitance values in the picofarad based three-character code
system. 17
Table 11 –Coding of capacitance values in the microfarad based three-character code
system. 18
Table 12 – Letter code for symmetrical relative tolerances . 19
Table 13 – Letter code for asymmetrical relative tolerances . 19
Table 14 – Letter code for symmetrical absolute tolerances of capacitors . 20
Table 15 – Letter code for the dielectric material of plastic film capacitors . 20
Table 16 – Letter code for the temperature coefficient of resistance . 21
Table 17 – Character code letters for the month . 22
Table 18 – Code letters for the year in a twenty-year cycle . 22
Table 19 – Code letters for the year in a ten-year cycle . 23
Table 20 – Single-character code for year and month at a 4-year cycle . 25
Table A.1 – Coding of the significant numerals of the E96 series .
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