Stupid schematic-reading question

Peter Ullrich ullrich at kapsch.co.at
Wed Nov 6 07:42:53 CET 1996


Hi !

>   The schematics themselves are actually pretty simple, but I've got a
>bit of a problem with the capacitor values.  Some of the values are just
>numbers without values; I'm assuming these are microfarads but I'm not
>sure.

You are on the right way !

>Others are expressed as a number, a slash, and then another number;
>kind of like a fraction, except I don't think the numbers make sense as
>capacitor values.  (e.g. 10/16, 1/50, 47/16, .47/50, 33/6.3)

All these are normally Alu-Electrolythic Capacitors:

10/16  => 10uF / 16 Volts
1/50   =>  1uF / 50 Volts
47/16  => 47uF / 16 Volts
.47/16 => 470nF / 50 Volts
33/6.3 => 33uF / 6.3 Volts

Ciao
Peter

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