Serious Tone Capacitor Questions:

[Inspector #20]

If I placed a .018uf and a 0.01uf side by side, twisted the leads together and soldered them into place, what effect would this have???

 

[Inspector #20]

I've also been curious about this:

 

[ChasFred]

If I placed a .018uf and a 0.01uf side by side, twisted the leads together and soldered them into place, what effect would this have???

caps in parallel will add together their values so.018 + .01 = .028

 

[Inspector #20]

caps in parallel will add together their values so.018 + .01 = .028

Thanks, Chas...

What you make of the diagram???

 

[ChasFred]

I would say they are redundant, on is on the input the other on the output.

 

[Inspector #20]

So doubling up 0.01's would make it a 0.02uf???

 

[eSGEe]

my tone capacitors are always serious -- none of them have a sense of humor --SHOCKING ----

 

[Cadorman]

In your diagram I don't think the big capacitor will do anything except when the pot is wide open. My understanding is that the signal will go to the capacitor with the least resistance, which is the one attached to the wiper (center pin) in your diagram.

 

[syscokid]

This is always a shortcut on my desktop:

Electronics 2000 | Series / Parallel Capacitor Calculator

Electronics 2000, for electronics hobbyists, engineers and students. Online calculators, software downloads, technical data, beginners guide, pinouts, forum, links and more

www.electronics2000.co.uk

 

[Inspector #20]

Cool calculator,

If I put in 0.01uf in parallel it tells me the new total would be 10nf???

 

[syscokid]

I'm not sure I understand your question...
On that online calculator, if the units of capacitance is in Microfarads and you enter ".01", then the .01uF is converted to 10nF. If you then add a ".018uF" to the 10nF (.01uF), then the calculated total in parallel will be 28nF, or .028uF.

 

[syscokid]

This following info is also from the same website:

Electronics 2000 | Capacitance Conversion Table

Electronics 2000, for electronics hobbyists, engineers and students. Online calculators, software downloads, technical data, beginners guide, pinouts, forum, links and more

www.electronics2000.co.uk

 

[Don O]

The way I remember the values are

Micro = 6
Nano = 9
Pico = 12

Microfarad is 10 to the minus 6th farads 0.000001
Nano is 10 to the minus 9th
Pico is 10 to the minus 12th

 

[eSGEe]

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[Trident]

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