I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John

:I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John

RCW

The third digit is the number of zeros, 103 will be 10,000 mmf (pf_ or, .01 mfd,

204 is therefore 200000, 200,000 mmf or .2 mfd

John,

Use this link and go to the Excel order form. It has the part number/conversion.

Terry F
http://www.justradios.com/capacitors.html

:I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John

John,
Haven't they learned, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" ? I prefer it marked clearly as to what it is - less chance for an error. But, then again, I liked the "old" math and I hated the "new" Coke....

::I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John
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:John,
:Haven't they learned, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" ? I prefer it marked clearly as to what it is - less chance for an error. But, then again, I liked the "old" math and I hated the "new" Coke....

Roger the above! I have worked in electronics since I was 19, and the only conclusion I can come up with is a fast talking salesman that catches someone in management who, as a kid, always had to be "the first on your block to have a 'Little Orphan Annie' decoder ring" or somesuch. Time and time again I have seen something that was working perfectly good changed for something new that did the same thing, after we spent months debugging it, figuring out how it worked and how to fix and maintain it, just because it was "old technology" To wind up with more or less exactly what we had before.
Lewis

:::I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John
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::John,
::Haven't they learned, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" ? I prefer it marked clearly as to what it is - less chance for an error. But, then again, I liked the "old" math and I hated the "new" Coke....
:
:Roger the above! I have worked in electronics since I was 19, and the only conclusion I can come up with is a fast talking salesman that catches someone in management who, as a kid, always had to be "the first on your block to have a 'Little Orphan Annie' decoder ring" or somesuch. Time and time again I have seen something that was working perfectly good changed for something new that did the same thing, after we spent months debugging it, figuring out how it worked and how to fix and maintain it, just because it was "old technology" To wind up with more or less exactly what we had before.
:Lewis
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:Lewis, I suppose it was done for computerized inventory purposes or such. As they say, "To err is human - but to really screw things up you'll need a computer". FUBAR lives!

::::I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John
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:::John,
:::Haven't they learned, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" ? I prefer it marked clearly as to what it is - less chance for an error. But, then again, I liked the "old" math and I hated the "new" Coke....
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::Roger the above! I have worked in electronics since I was 19, and the only conclusion I can come up with is a fast talking salesman that catches someone in management who, as a kid, always had to be "the first on your block to have a 'Little Orphan Annie' decoder ring" or somesuch. Time and time again I have seen something that was working perfectly good changed for something new that did the same thing, after we spent months debugging it, figuring out how it worked and how to fix and maintain it, just because it was "old technology" To wind up with more or less exactly what we had before.
::Lewis
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::Lewis, I suppose it was done for computerized inventory purposes or such. As they say, "To err is human - but to really screw things up you'll need a computer". FUBAR lives!

Murphy was an optimist.
Lewis

:I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John

Really thank everyone who answered. I'll get the hang of this yet.

::I haven't done anything with electronics since 1970 and am trying to get back in the hobby of old radios. My question is how do you read the capacitors now. The wording on them is like etr 204, 103, etc. I'm not used to this. What is what? anyway thanks for your help. John
:
:Really thank everyone who answered. I'll get the hang of this yet.

John:
This might help:
http://www.justradios.com/uFnFpF.html
Lewis