Capacitor markings...?

[Brian Carling]

On  6 Mar 98 at 6:39, Joel wrote:


> The other was a silver mica, supposed to be .0022 mf, and it read "222J".

Yes, that is not uncommon - the thrid digit in THAT scheme means the
number of ZEROES to add, and the answer is on pF

222 = 2200pF
223 = 22000pF

.0022 uF = 2200 pF, yes...

It gets CONFUSING!
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