Ceramic Disc Capacitor 104z

The white powder appearance of the yellow ceramic shell is an indication of age but not necessarily that the cap is bad.

Ceramic disc capacitor 104z.

Ceramic disc capacitors are made by coating a ceramic disc with silver contacts on both sides as shown above illustrates. The early style of the ceramic disc capacitor could be more cheaply produced than the common ceramic tube capacitors in the 1950s and 1970s. Ceramic disc capacitors have a capacitance value of about10pf to 100μf with a wide variety of voltage ratings between 16v to 15 kv and more. The first two numbers describe the value of the capacitor and the third number is the number of zeros in the multiplier.

You can always replace one capacitor with a higher voltage rating but never with less voltage rating. 104z 9 5mm diameter 9 5mm lead spacing single item. Used in many applications they typically range from 1 nf to 1 µf and occasionally up to 100 µf. They are very easy to decode to find the value.

Ceramic disc capacitors are available at mouser electronics from industry leading manufacturers. When the first two numbers are multiplied with the multiplier the. C103 2kv ceramic disc capacitor 01uf 2kv mfr. Mouser is an authorized distributor for many ceramic disc capacitor manufacturers including avx kemet murata tdk vishay more.

Method of finding the value meaning of codes of capacitor. The minimun order amount is 15 00 all inclusive. Different types of ceramic capacitors. Most 5 volt and less electronics use 1 uf caps as decouple capacitors power supply noise filters.

The large capacitors in an antique radio typically range from 1 200 µf. Ceramic capacitors are usually smaller than your thumb and attach to the circuit with two pins. Hours of operation monday friday 7 30 4 00 pst. Ceramic disc capacitor code label will normally consist of three numbers followed by a letter.

The letter j signifies the tolerance of 5. The third digit is the multiplier which is 1000. Click here for resistor colour code and smd resistor code ceramic disc capacitors have two to three digits code printed on them. 0 1uf ceramic disc capacitor 50vdc code.

The first two significant digits represent the first two digits of the actual value which is 47.