Re: reading capacitor value from code printed on it?

From: Bill Christens-Barry (equipoise1_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/21/04


Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:12:37 GMT

In article
<pppai097jtt4gdkjsr964ei8acq1fm3qnq@news.supernews.com>,
 Peter Bennett <peterbb@somewhere.invalid> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that turned out to be the answer! Careful inspection
showed that some of the paint had chipped off.

Thanks.

-- 
Wm A Christens-Barry, PhD
Equipoise Imaging, LLC
equipoise1@verizon.net
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