[sdiy] identifying old capacitors

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:24:32AM +1000, Brett Maddaford wrote:
>    I picked up a haul of electronic components and have  whole pile of
>    capacitors that look kinda strange....well to me anyway ;) they have
>    no written info just colored stripes like resistors except the bands
>    of color are solid against each other (unlike bands on resistors) they
>    are anything form a retangular block in shape to ones that look like a
>    match head and seem to have been dipped in whatever they are coated in
>    if that makes sense. basically i just want to know how to check their
>    values...is there a color chart like for resistors?

Most any website with resistor colour codes will give cap colour codes too.

http://www.ctech.ac.za/facul/eng/ee/human/pcbhome/Colour.html is a good
example.


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