HISTORY:
Sustainability is the name of the game! Anything (that has been tested and still functioning properly) should be repurposed creating saving in wasted Ee and reducing the poisoning our environment when items are buried in the earth at the local tip needlessly.
Never heard of Ee? It is a concept that creates a measurement of ALL things (not just electronics) that humans have made and the energy used in obtaining the raw material, processing the materials right through to a finished product and even should include the shipping of the item to the distributors/retailers.
If you would like to know more about Ee values, please take a look HERE
Disc ceramic capacitor from some British valve equipment, nice grunty 1600V variety
Disc Ceramic Capacitor
Z5U Series
Value: 0.01uF (103) 10nF
Voltage: 1600V DC
Tolerance: ± 20% (M)
Radial leads
Z5U's were general purpose capacitors, known to show wide variations in value due to environmental conditions and circuit design operating conditions. See my test results below ...
LABEL IDENTIFICATION ON THE BODY
(Company logo which looks like a flattened diamond shape - I do not recognise this company)
103P
1.6KV
Z5U
DIMENSIONS:
Body: 4.2mm thickness x 18.75mm diameter
Leads: 5mm Length x 0.5mm diameter tinned wire
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED
CLEAN
Leads are shiny and ready to be made use of once again
TESTING:
Wherever possible I like to test used components, these have been tested and the capacitance values are:
12.61nF
12.48nF
12.35nF
11.23nF
All are reading above the nominal value, but surprisingly the majority are consistently just near the upper edge of the 20% tolerance - nice!
*** Where the photograph shows multiple components, this advertisement is for ONE capacitor only - not all that are shown ***
