[sdiy] Newbie? AHHHHH!

[Oren Leavitt]

Hello and welcome!

There's a good capacitor code (and other stuff) reference here:

http://www.marvac.com/funpages/index.html

Click on 'Ceramic Capacitor Codes'

Happy New Year!
Oren

b 111 wrote:

> Hello List,
> I'm new, not just to this list, but to electronics in general. I've 
> been into analog synths since the age of 15, about 10 years now, but 
> never thought of building anything until recently. I've been learning 
> out of Craig Anderton's Electronic Projects for Musicians, and 
> Radioshack's Basic Electronics books. So far so good. I've learned a 
> bunch, but the first project I built failed to work. Oh well, learn 
> how to troubleshoot. I have a plan, build a few of the projects out of 
> Craig's book, then move to a small, easy synth, and on to bigger 
> better things. Now that you know what I'm up to I have a question. 
> Christmas brought me the gift of a cool tool box with lots of 
> compartments. I want to put resistors, capacitors etc, in their own 
> little space but i'm afraid that once I seperate them from their 
> packaging, I won't know what they are. The resistors are easy, so no 
> problem there. Capacitors! Different story all together. I mostly buy 
> Radioshack parts a) cuz' they're cheap b) cuz' they're close. How do I 
> translate whats on the packaging to whats printed on the capacitor 
> itself?
> Example:
> Package reads:
>
> .022uF
> Polyester-Film Capacitor
> Sub-mini PC-mount  Radial Leads  50WVDC max
>
> Capacitor Reads:
>
> 2A
> 223K
>
> I can assume that 223k = .22uF +/- 10%.
> What is 2A?
> Does this have something to do with the fact that this is a 
> Polyester-Film Capacitor vs  Disc/Ceramic or Electrolytic?
> What is Sub-mini PC mount?
>
> I have another one that reads:
>
> 270pF 1KV
> Disc Ceramic
> +/- 10%
> Capacitor
>
> the unit reads:
>
> Y5P
> 271K
> 1KV
>
> What is Y5P?
> These books, as good as they are, fail to explain this.
> Also, are there any websites that explain how to construct on 
> vectorboard or breadboard? I think it would be good for me to learn 
> this way before sinking the cash for building my own PCBs.
>
> Thats it for now. Been lurking on the list for a couple of weeks just 
> making shure it was not way out of my league.
> Thanks in advance.
> Brad
>
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Oren Leavitt
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