Capacitors - Electrolytic, Ceramic, Polyester, Class X2

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Electrolytic Capacitors: Aluminium electrolytic capacitors, radial lead, 85 degree rated. More Details
Non-Polarised Electrolytics More Details
Ceramic Capacitors General purpose ceramic disc capacitors and multilayer ceramics. More Details
High Voltage Ceramic Capacitors More Details
Polyester Film - Polybox Capacitors Compact 5mm lead spacing. More Details
Tantalum Bead Capacitors A range of values from 100nF to 47uF. More Details
Metallised Polypropylene Capacitors For mains interference suppression, motor operation, etc. More Details
Variable trimmer capacitors

CAPACITOR INFORMATION

Capacitance is measured in Farads. One Farad is a very high capacitance, which you will almost certainly never encounter. Typically you will find capacitors in the microfarad (uF - one millionth of a Farad), nanofarad (nF - one thousand millionth of a Farad) and picofarad (pF - one million millionth of a Farad) ranges. Confusion can sometimes occur when values are quoted in different ranges eg. 100nF and 0.1uF are the same value. The table below shows some of these equivalent values, together with the code that you might find printed on the capacitor itself.

pF	nF	uF	Code
10	0.01		100
22	0.022		220
47	0.047		470
100	0.1		101
220	0.22		221
470	0.47		471
1000	1		102
2200	2.2		222
4700	4.7		472
10000	10	0.01	103
22000	22	0.022	223
47000	47	0.047	473
100000	100	0.1	104