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Usage Information:
Do not connect a component to power until you are sure that you have connected it correctly. Double check everything before applying power. In particular, make sure that you do not short pins on the ICs.
Please keep components sorted in containers and in the plastic bags where possible.
If you are using a rechargeable 9V battery, be very careful not to short the leads and the battery can get very hot.
Be particularly careful not to connect larger capacitors (electrolytic) backwards as they will 'explode' - please be careful of the polarity (i.e. the +/- designation).
Resistor Chart:
To read the values of the resistors you can use the following information (From Wikipedia):
For example, a resistor with bands of yellow, violet, red, and gold will have first digit 4 (yellow in table below), second digit 7 (violet), followed by 2 (red) zeros: 4,700 ohms. Gold signifies that the tolerance is ±5%, so the real resistance could lie anywhere between 4,465 and 4,935 ohms.
You can also use your multimeter, but you can only do that if the resistor is not connected to the circuit.
Capacitor Values:
Figure 2. A 100nF Capacitor - it will have 104 written on the surface
Figure 2, shows a picture of a 100nF (0.1uF) ceramic capacitor. The numbering code for capacitors is reasonably straightforward. Unfortunately, the numbering on ceramic capacitors can be very small. The numbering is as follows:
The first number is the 1st digit of the capacitor value
The second number is the 2nd digit of the capacitor value
The third number is the number of zeros, where the capacitor value is in pF (pico-Farads)
Further letters can be ignored, but represent the tolerance and voltage rating of the capacitor.
So, for example:
104 = 100,000pF = 100nF
102 = 1000pF = 1nF
472 = 4700pf = 4.7nF
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