Your colors are off by one and the third stripe is the number of zeros
after the first two digits.
Ex.  Red Red Orange  = 22,000 ohms
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:51 am, Bill L wrote:
> Hello Frank,
>
>        the BIG resistor, brown in color, with stripes, Brown, green,
>        brown, silver, indicating a 260 (or is it 2600) ohm, 10%
>        tolerance resistor?.... .. by the way, the color coding on
>        resistors goes...
>
>        black   = 1
>        brown   = 2
>        red     = 3
>        orange  = 4
>        yellow  = 5
>        green   = 6
>        blue    = 7
>        violet  = 8
>        gray    = 9
>        white   = 10
>
>        gray (blank)    = 20%
>        silver          = 10%
>        gold            =  5%
>
>        the memnonic is... bad boys rape our young girls but violet
>        gives willingly.... get some now!
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