[sdiy] Mystery Caps

[Neil Johnson]

> At first I thought they were diodes since they look exactly like small
> silicon signal diodes. Upon further inspection I realized that they are
> capacitors.

What was this "further inspection"...?

> I have never seen this type of cap before. Is anybody familiar with
> these?

As already suggested, they *might* be varactor diodes.

But my guess is that they could be glass-encapsulted multi-layer ceramic
capacitors.  The "50V"  rating sounds like they might be these.

Neil

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