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Title: What kind of component is this?
Post by: Triffid on January 28, 2004, 10:54:16 PM

I recently scrapped an old radio I had laying around and actually found some cool parts that have used in my boxes. I found a bunch of these components and I don't know what they are. I think they are some sort of capacitor, but I don't know.

(http://www.castagno.org/comp.jpg)

The top of the box says "150nK". The label on the pcb I got it of says "CC24", "CC25", "CC26", etc...

Thanks for your help in advance

Title: Did you put a meter on it?
Post by: petemoore on January 28, 2004, 10:59:52 PM

See if DC goes through?

Title: What kind of component is this?
Post by: brett on January 28, 2004, 11:02:52 PM

That a 150nF MKT (film) cap. Similar in many ways to a greencap of the same value. The value is always written (often in nF) on the top, together with a code for a voltage rating (K in your example). They're top quality components.

Title: What kind of component is this?
Post by: Triffid on January 28, 2004, 11:05:45 PM

Awesome, thanks... that would be the same thing as a 0.15 mf right?

Thanks again

Title: What kind of component is this?
Post by: brett on January 28, 2004, 11:57:10 PM

Yep. 1nF = 0.001uF (nano is a thousandth of a micro)

Title: What kind of component is this?
Post by: zachary vex on January 29, 2004, 12:21:05 AM

if you find units that look like that and they have no 'n' after the value, they are in pF with the following rules:

153 means 15 with 3 zeros following, or 15,000 pF

101 means 10 with 1 zero following, or 100 pF

100 means 10 with zero zeros following, or 10 pF

Title: What kind of component is this?
Post by: blabj on January 29, 2004, 12:48:22 PM

thanks for that last piece of knowlege, now i know the value of the caps in my parts box
cheers

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