whats the value of this cap?

[N3DRB The Derb]

3300 pf

.033 mf

.0033 mf

dazed and confused. 

[N5RLR]

0.0033 μF, +/- 20%. 

[N3DRB The Derb]

tnx mike. 

[W3RSW]

or 3300 pf.  Good for RF bypassing and treble cut in audio high impedance circuits.

[N3DRB The Derb]

I gotz 100 of them. I better get going. 

[WA1GFZ]

nice value. John JN gave me a bunch of blue ones. I used 4 of them to fix our 2 1 KW amps at work.

[k4kyv]

I hate that system of marking nominal values.  It's basically equivalent to the standard color code, but using numbers instead of dots or stripes of paint.  Why don't they just use a simple decimal fraction or multi-digit whole number, and mark it mfd or pf, or else use painted dots or stripes as on a resistor?

[W3RSW]

One of my favorite tactile and fun things in electronics is straightening out those damn circuit board kink-stop leads into straight wire.  I can just feel the needle-nosers scrunching into 'em.  You've got to hold the pliers just so or the kink squirts sideways. 

The other fun thing is straighting out hook up wire.  Same squirrelly problem and you have to have three dimensional eyes to see if you've succeeded.  - or rotate it very fast and catch it on the run. 

Hey, these rate right up there with nibbling tool overruns.  You almost always over-nibble and hence "keep digging your hole deeper."    Kind of like watercolor painting..  way too easy to overdo.

[N8IE]

Here you go:
http://n8ie.com/caps.aspx

 

73
Dan, N8IE

[KB2WIG]

 " One of my favorite tactile and fun things in electronics is straightening out those damn circuit board kink-stop leads into straight wire.  I can just feel the needle-nosers scrunching into 'em.  You've got to hold the pliers just so or the kink squirts sideways. "


I liked to pop zits when I was a smaller JN...

[WB2YGF]

0.0033 μF, +/- 20%. 

Also the dielectric is Z5U which means it can vary +22%, -56% over -10°C to +85°C, a poor choice where temprature stability is important.  Where stability is critical NPO (±30ppm/°C over -55°C to +125°C) is what you use.

[WB2YGF]

0.0033 μF, +/- 20%. 

Nup, its really a 3300 uuf

You mean μμF

[k4kyv]

0.0033 μF, +/- 20%. 

Nup, its really a 3300 uuf

You mean μμF

I have a neat little handheld digital capacitance meter.  I'll just measure the damn things.

[WB2YGF]

0.0033 μF, +/- 20%. 

Nup, its really a 3300 uuf

You mean μμF

I have a neat little handheld digital capacitance meter.  I'll just measure the damn things.

Actually, many people (myself included) prefer to work in nanofarads so it's really 3.3nF

Don, while the above example is not coded (3300 = 3300pf), when you get something like 330, you don't know if it's 330pf or the code for 33pf

[W3SLK]

Don said:

I have a neat little handheld digital capacitance meter.  I'll just measure the damn things.

I have an Eico capacitance/resistance bridge with the eye tube. Greatest piece of test equipment since sliced bread! I've never known it to lack accuracy.