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Looking at our capacitor we will see its marked 474J, this should be read as follows,
47 times the value that can be found in Table 1 corresponding to the 3rd number, in
this case 10000. 47 * 10000 = 470000 pF = 470 nF = 0.47 uF with the J meaning a
by a capacitors size and type, you will quickly learn to determine if the value on the
the two first signs is the voltage rating and can be decoded from table 2 here below.
Some capacitors are only marked 0.1 or 0.01, mostly in these cases the values are
given in uF.
Some small capacitance capacitors can be marked with a R between numbers, f.ex.
3R9 where R is a indicator of values below 10pF and have nothing to do with
Table 1
0 1 D 0.5pF
1 10 F 1%
2 100 G 2%
3 1,000 H 3%
4 10,000 J 5%
5 100,000 K 10%
6 1,000,000 M 20%
8 0.01 P +100%/-0%
9 0.1 Z +80%/-20%
Here is a list of common capacitors and a scale between the different grades of the
Farad SI unit.
Table 3
pF nF uF Code
pF nF uF Code