Re: reading capacitor value from code printed on it?

From: Peter Bennett (peterbb_at_somewhere.invalid)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:53:21 -0700

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:58:09 GMT, Bill Christens-Barry
<equipoise1@verizon.net> wrote:

>I have a circuit board with a capacitor that needs replacing (it got
>burned when an adjacent triac went out). The capacitor is a small "bead"
>shape, and has the code:
>
> 1C4
> ME5
>
>printed on it.
>
>I can't find anything on the web about this particular code format - can
>anyone help me figure out what its value and max voltage is?

Any chance that it is actually 104 rather than 1C4 - if so, it may be
an 0.1 uF capacitor - very common value for power supply bypass
capacitors. 

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