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capacitor identification, please help

yarisboyyarisboy Posts: 245
edited 2011-07-20 00:41 in General Discussion
I have three capacitors I'm not sure about. The first is, I believe, tantalum.
The script on it is:
|
1|
35+
The second also should be tantalum.
It's script is:
104L
+--
The third looks like what the Parallax store lists as "mono radial"
and has the script:
725
RAF

Comments

  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2011-07-19 11:05
    The first one sounds like a 1uF 35V standard tantalum. The + identifies the positive lead.

    The second one sounds like a 0.1uF or 100nF (or 10 x 10^4 pF, hence the 104) ceramic.

    I don't know what the third one would be. The 725 doesn't make sense in terms of standard values. You might look elsewhere on the device for another code.
  • yarisboyyarisboy Posts: 245
    edited 2011-07-19 13:46
    The camera sees better than I do.
    Long ago Nick gave me a Boss Board to get started with. I'm finally building it. The spec sheet for the 3.3 Vreg says I should have an input capacitor of at least 100nf preferably tantalum. The 5.0 Vreg wants at least .33uf for the input capacitance, again tantalum recommended. The build assistance pages on Gadget Gangster show common electrolytics going in positions Pa and Pe so I wonder if I worrying about trivial issues again. The regulators on this board are both fed from the polarity protection diode so the 3.3 doesn't wreck the current budget for the 5.0 regulator. As a back-up general purpose bench Propeller my application is, as of yet, unspecific. The spec sheets say the Vreg output capacitors improve transient response so in my case they are big. Given the identification it looks like I have what I need.
    Thanks again Mike.
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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2011-07-20 00:41
    Just buying a capacitor test might be an easier way to go. Capacitor labeling has long had too many alternatives.
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