Schematic Question

[Tucson Annie]

Hi Guys,

I've been reading lots of schematics online and many times the caps are just marked like .01 or .1....is that assumed to be micro-farads?

Thanks,

Annie

 

[Gayan Soyza]

Yes there in uF. Also there is some different code styles as well.like pF,nF etc...

For.01 it may written 103 code.
take the last digit and add 0's (if the last digit is 3 add three 0's) = 10000
so the value is 10000/1000000 = 0.01 uF

for your reference go through this

**broken link removed**

here is another one

https://xtronics.com/kits/ccode.htm

 

[Tucson Annie]

Thanks for the awesome info Gayan...it makes life easier, lol...

Annie