What is this capacitor?

[sound guy]

I am repairing a pk klarity sub amp I have a bad ceramic capacitor that has the number 1815 printed on it. I don't have schematics and the cap is ruined so I don't know the value. Does anyone know?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Post a picture, so we can see where it is, and what it might be doing.

 

[ahsrabrifat]

The number 1815 on a ceramic capacitor does not directly indicate its capacitance value in the standard capacitor code format. It can be a proprietary marking.

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[sagor1]

Could it be some form of MOV? Post a picture of it.... Are there identical ones nearby as well? Picture those too.

 

[sound guy]

Yes the 1815 is a proprietary marking that's why I don't know the value don't know who made it or where the PK company gets its ceramic capacitors from. Unfortunately the cap crumbled to pieces when I tried to remove it from the PC board and there are no others like it on the unit. It is one of those small pancake caps.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Yes the 1815 is a proprietary marking that's why I don't know the value don't know who made it or where the PK company gets its ceramic capacitors from. Unfortunately the cap crumbled to pieces when I tried to remove it from the PC board and there are no others like it on the unit. It is one of those small pancake caps.

POST A PICTURE - if the component has crumbled, then post a GOOD picture of the board where it was, close up and one wider. What colour was the crumbled component?.