solid capacitors

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simplicity

Joined Sep 24, 2013
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hi everyone
first excuse my english , it's not that good
second , please can anyone tell me how to read capacitor values (voltage and capacity) from solid capacitors



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wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
17,498
Solid? I've never seen gas or liquid capacitors. :p

If it's not printed on them, it's pretty tough. If it is printed on them...read it.

I'm obviously not understanding your question.
 

Alec_t

Joined Sep 17, 2013
14,330
Electrolytic caps usually have the capacitance and voltage printed.
Non-electrolytics may have colour stripes (the same as resistors) indicating their value in pF. Or they may have a 3-digit number where the third digit indicates how many '0's to put after the other 2 digits to get the value in pF.
 

#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
18,224
I tried googling "capacitor marking" but I'm just getting modern styles.

If the capacitor is modern with numbers like 104 or 225, google "capacitor marking".
If it has color stripes on it, say so.
 
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