Ceramic Capacitor Values Reading

We can not directly measure capacitance with ordinary multimeters like that we have shown on article on multimeter for dummies.

Ceramic capacitor values reading.

Method of finding the value meaning of codes of capacitor ceramic disc capacitors have two to three digits code printed on them. The video explores the method to determine the values of a ceramic capacitor with an example. Reading the values of small capacitors ceramic capacitors ceramic capacitors have very small area to print the value of capacitance. The third digit is the multiplier which is 1000.

The first two numbers describe the value of the capacitor and the third number is the number of zeros in the. 10 to the power is 100 and k indicates 1000. They are very easy to decode to find the value. Similarly a 47k is 0 047 micro farads or 4700 pico farad or 4 7nf.

Let us see how to calculate these values. 104 is 1 0 0000 or 100 000pf or 100nf. So capacitance on these capacitors is represented using short hand notation. 10 to the power of 6 is microfarad.

3 polyester capacitors if you can read properly ceramic capacitors you should have no problem with polyesters. 103 is 1 0 000 or 10 000pf or 10nf. A value of 102k indicates 10 to the power of 2 1000 pico farad or 100 000 pico farad. Here is how to read ceramic capacitor values.

10 6 10 to the power 6 pico farad pf is equal to 1 micro farad uf. B 0 10pf c 0 25pf d 0 5pf e 0 5 f 1 g 2 h 3 j 5 k 10 m 20 n 30 p 100 0 z 80 20. This letter represents the tolerance of the capacitor meaning how close the actual value of the capacitor can be expected to be to the indicated value of the capacitor. Ceramic disc capacitor code label will normally consist of three numbers followed by a letter.

Read the tolerance code on ceramic capacitors. The first two significant digits represent the first two digits of the actual value which is 47. When the first two numbers are multiplied with the. The letter next is the tolerance.

The multimeters which can read capacitance are usually costlier better. Ceramic capacitors which are usually tiny pancakes with two pins typically list the tolerance value as one letter immediately after the three digit capacitance value. So 102k can be 100 000 1 000 000 0 1 micro farad. Ceramic capacitors are denoted in pf pico farad.