Capacitor markings...?

[Jeffrey Herman]

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Ken Beach wrote:
> Actually 101 is 100 pf.  100 would be 10 pf.

Ken, as has already been pointed out, this is not always true. I
have a 10 pf cap here that is marked "10", not 100. Also, I've seen
a cap that was marked "100" which measured 100 pf on a cap meter.

"100" is the ambiguous case.

Jeff KH2PZ / KH6

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