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These are your most commonly used cap values. There might be a few other odd values but you should be able to figure those out just by comparing their codes with those given here.

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Good resource, I need to print this out!

Thanks Stephen. This is yet even one more resource to help out THIS BoZo uni-motard - LOL

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Thanks Stephen!

Sweet man thanks, where did this come from?

i know naz posted something up close the other day, very helpful

especially sorting thru my cigar box of caps from that old record player

thanks!

Was it THIS?

yes it was. thanks again for that link, lots of good info there.

cheers

Here is my contribution. For morons like me who can't convert pf, nf and uf.

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Steven, this chart is amazing. I was going through my capacitors yesterday, and I'm about to start again and this chart is perfect.

DC, as I was labeling everything I thought "Man, it would be nice to have a conversion table because I suck at math so much."

Thanks guys.
-shane

Shane, I have to find the rest of the chart, but I think it easy to figure out the rest. Glad it helped.

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For me it's not so much that I suck at math, it's just remembering where and how to move all of those zeros and decimal points. I've been using charts like this a lot more now than I used to and I'm getting to the point where I can actually remember how to convert the values. I still get that occasional cap with a value that confounds me though.

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http://www.electronics2000.co.uk/calc/c ... ulator.php

found this cool site with a decent built im 3-number code calculater
plus one to convert nf-uf-pf

Now that I've got down the numbered caps, I need a quick primer on how to read the tropical fishie caps - LOL.

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http://www.electronicsteacher.com/capacitor-chart.php

About the best I've seen.

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This is great stuff! I am currently weeding through a ton of caps getting ready to do the gruntbox build. So thanks!

Edit: mea culpa: they have 10nk written on the other side, doh!

Maybe I should put this kit aside for a little while before I do something _really_ silly





I am building Delay/Ping-pong and have 7 capacitors with "1u6" written on them.

Since there are supposed to be 7 0.01uF capacitors, I have to assume these are the ones, but it's not obvious to me why 1U6 means 0.01uF ?

None of the above links talk about a 1U6 kind of code...

Clues?

Thanks!

GaJ

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1u6 usually means 1.6 uf. Which is an odd value. But there must be some more codes on those? three numbers and a K or J perhaps? .01 uf usually has a 103k or 103J on it.

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I've never soldered anything in my life, but I found this web site, and after reading through it, I got excited and ordered a BBOD (the description said it was the easiest!). Well, it came in the mail today, and I dropped everything and got to work! I've only burned myself 3 times (so far...) and am having lots of fun with it! I'm a bit confused about the capacitors, and I couldn't quite figure out from the charts on here- on the diagram, just to the upper left of the 8-pin socket, it calls for a "47p", but I only have a blue square one labeled "47nj63" and a tiny orange one that just has an underlined 47 on it- I already soldered in the blue square one, which leads me to believe that the orange one is supposed to go there (thanks, Murphy). I'd appreciate any help!

Yep, you got it wrong. The "p" in "47p" stands for pico farads. That value is the 10th one down on the list...


The "47n" part of "47nj63" on the blue cap stands for 47nf (nano farads) which is the same thing as .047uf (micro farads). The "63" is the cap's voltage rating.

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Thanks, Stephen! Starting to make sense!

FM

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Hm, these codes actually seem to make sense

Code: 153 = 15 3 = 15 * 10^3 = 15000 pf, or 15 nf, or 0.015 uf
Code: 102 = 10 2 = 10 * 10^2 = 1000 pf, or 1 nf, or 0.001 uf

The last digit basically determines the number of 0's you put after the first 2 digits, based on the pico farad scale

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