Can anyone help with a capacitor value issue?

Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:18 pm

I'm digging through my magical musical grab bag of love in hopes of finding a capacitor I can use for a guitar job I'm doing. I found one little red film cap that I cannot identify. As I said, it's red and has F102Kr 630PPi typed on it. Of course, it's an radial capacitor. I'm imagining it's a .102uF but could it be 630 volts? Seems an odd number to me.

Thanks kids and have some fun today.

Larry

Re: Can anyone help with a capacitor value issue?

Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:37 am

102 means .001uF, or 1nF
Keep this handy:
http://www.csgnetwork.com/capcodeinfo.html

Re: Can anyone help with a capacitor value issue?

Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:08 pm

Thank you. Do you know how I find it's voltage?

Re: Can anyone help with a capacitor value issue?

Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:43 am

Zippy wrote:Thank you. Do you know how I find it's voltage?


If you put it in a guitar, the voltage doesn't matter at all, as it would be simply sufficient as it just says how much it can stand.

Re: Can anyone help with a capacitor value issue?

Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:28 pm

Miles Smiles wrote:
Zippy wrote:Thank you. Do you know how I find it's voltage?


If you put it in a guitar, the voltage doesn't matter at all, as it would be simply sufficient as it just says how much it can stand.


In the tone path, correct. In the star ground path, yes. I've never put a capacitor in all the shielding/star grounds I've done. A customer saw a schematic and wishes it done in that fashion. I showed him my little ground tester thingy and showed him how to use it. No matter. What the customer wants the customer gets. Plus, it's just more safe.
Larry