Date: Tue, 15 Mar 94 04:30:33 PST From: Ham-Homebrew Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Homebrew-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Homebrew@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #62 To: Ham-Homebrew Ham-Homebrew Digest Tue, 15 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 62 Today's Topics: Capacitor code (NOT color code) (2 msgs) Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Homebrew Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-homebrew". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 Mar 94 04:19:29 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!srgenprp!alanb@hplabs.hp.com Subject: Capacitor code (NOT color code) To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Matthew B Cravit (cravitma@cps.msu.edu) wrote: : Someone help! : I obtained a pack of about 500 disc capacitors, and they are all : labelled with a code which I do not understand and have not found any : reference for so far (ARRL handbook etc). For example, what _looks_ : like a .1 uF capacitor is labelled "102Z". : Can someone mail me or post a translation of these codes? It's just like the resistor color code except it uses numbers instead of colors. "102" means "10 plus 2 zeros" or 1000 pF. A 0.15 uF would be "154" = 150000 pF = 0.15 uF. I believe the "Z" is the tolerance. Probably Z5U. AL N1AL ------------------------------ Date: 15 Mar 1994 01:29:59 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!cravitma@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Capacitor code (NOT color code) To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Someone help! I obtained a pack of about 500 disc capacitors, and they are all labelled with a code which I do not understand and have not found any reference for so far (ARRL handbook etc). For example, what _looks_ like a .1 uF capacitor is labelled "102Z". Can someone mail me or post a translation of these codes? BTW, I assume this is _not_ the tolerance coding, since there is only one line of this stuff and no other values printed on the capacitor. Thanks. /Matthew Cravit N9VWG -- Matthew Cravit, N9VWG | All opinions expressed here are Michigan State University | my own. I don't speak for MSU E-Mail: cravitma@cps.msu.ed | and they don't speak for me. ------------------------------ End of Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #62 ****************************** ******************************