How To Read A Ceramic Capacitor Value

For example 101 represents 100 pf.

How to read a ceramic capacitor value.

Values are normally printed on capacitors in micro farad uf with voltage. The first two numbers describe the value of the capacitor and the third number is the number of zeros in the multiplier. 10 6 10 to the power 6 pico farad pf is equal to 1 micro farad uf. The first two digits represent the value of the capacitor and the third one the number of zeros to add to the right.

With this we get the capacitor value in picofarads. If you have a capacitor that has nothing other than a three digit number printed on it the third digit represents the number of zeros to add to the end of the first two digits. The resulting number is the capacitance in pf. The digits 10 followed by one additional zero.

Values are normally printed on capacitors in micro farad uf with voltage. 10 6 10 to the power 6 pico farad pf is equal to 1 micro farad uf. Ceramic capacitors are way smaller than electrolytics and thus the full value plus unit can t be written on them. Ceramic capacitors which are usually tiny pancakes with two pins typically list the tolerance value as one letter immediately after the three digit capacitance value.

Here is how to read ceramic capacitor values. Instead they have a 3 digit coding system.