Thread: That Capacitor in a home made superhet
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Old 20th Oct 2010, 7:47 pm   #10
Tony1951
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Default Re: That Capacitor in a home made superhet
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The manuals for both my Philips radios give the value for that capacitor as 4.7n in the 371A and 15n in the 353A which translates as 0.047uF and 0.015uF.
4.7n=4700pF which is .0047uF not .047uF. One of your zero's disappeared

0.047=47nF.


SB
Ouch!

I am going outside to birch myself for that.
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