[sdiy] caps -- NPO or NP0?

[Henry Till]

Funny, I had the same scenario/question a couple weeks
back.  Ray meant to use NPO to abbreviate
"non-polarized", not realizing that he had wandered
into the land of temperature coefficents.  A standard
1 uF non-polarized cap (ceramic or otherwise) is fine
here.  If you need a mouser number, let me know...

Good luck with your build.  I hope you'll have as much
fun with it as I'm having with mine...

-Henry

--- john mahoney <jmahoney at gate.net> wrote:
> (A dearth of DIY content today, folks. In an effort
> to post something
> topical...)
> 
> I just finished ordering the parts to build my Sound
> Lab Mini-Synth:
>
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/SOUNDLABMINISYNTH/soundlab.html
> Rude66 is starting to build one, also, so one of us
> should be able to
> provide a review fairly soon. Anyway...
> 
> Somewhere along the way, the part specified as a 1uF
> NPO cap lost the "NPO."
> That is to say that Ray Wilson changed it on the
> parts list. I'm not sure
> why (yeah, I could ask Ray), but no matter.
> 
> Question is this: I see this written as NPO and NP0.
> Is it supposed to be
> the letter 'O' or the digit zero? C0G (cee zero gee)
> is yet another way of
> writing the same thing, apparently.
> 
> And I originally thought that it just meant
> Non-POlarized. Oops! :-/
> --
> john <--(electronics genius -- not!)
> 


	
		
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