Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How to read the value of small ceramic capacitors, and Why use an IF?
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.224358.11642@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 22:43:58 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.181039.22769@uncecs.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar11.181039.22769@uncecs.edu> crisp@uncecs.edu (Russ Crisp) writes:
>The first, how do you read and understand the values printed on
>small valued ceramic disc capacitors?  There seems to be a
>pattern on some I've seen.  For instance, 103 means .01uF,
>and 104 means .1uF ...

Read them as if they were the resistor color code.  123 means 12 x 10^3,
where the basic unit is always picofarads.
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