John Miles wrote:
In article ,
says...
Can anyone tell me that value of cap I am looking at. It reads MP
182k 100v. This is a small disk cap.
Thank you. Win w0lz
Sounds like 0.0018 uF, 'K'-tolerance (+/- 10%).
You can say that "182" as "a 1, an 8 and then 2 zeros, picofarads." So
that's 1 8 00 pF, which is the same as John's .0018uF.
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