Sorry to ask what is probably a very simple question for most of you guys, but I have tried to work out the value of 2 yellow safety capacitors on a plug in light remote switch and I cannot believe the values I am getting.
Here is a photo of the two in question:
According to everywhere I have looked (and others here) a .033K value would be 0.000033uF and the one labled .1K would be 0.0001uF, but if that is the case then they are very small values and no-one seems to make anything like as small as that! I must be missing something. I have 2 of these switches and both seem faulty, but my meter rates the ones labled 0.033K as a .001uF and 0.02uF. Clearly one or both is faulty, and I guess that measuring them "in situ" might be giving false readings because of the other components, but I am getting very confused as to what I should get to replace them. The other ones (labled .1K of which there are 2 on each board, so 4 in all) measure 0.1, 0.01, 0.07 and 0.002uF, again all measured in situ.
Any suggestions?
Here is a photo of the two in question:
According to everywhere I have looked (and others here) a .033K value would be 0.000033uF and the one labled .1K would be 0.0001uF, but if that is the case then they are very small values and no-one seems to make anything like as small as that! I must be missing something. I have 2 of these switches and both seem faulty, but my meter rates the ones labled 0.033K as a .001uF and 0.02uF. Clearly one or both is faulty, and I guess that measuring them "in situ" might be giving false readings because of the other components, but I am getting very confused as to what I should get to replace them. The other ones (labled .1K of which there are 2 on each board, so 4 in all) measure 0.1, 0.01, 0.07 and 0.002uF, again all measured in situ.
Any suggestions?