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Old 12-14-2011, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post
Second is a bumbel bee type which is a paper capacitor molded in plastic these are as bad or worse than all paper types and should be replaced
Even 20 years ago these caps were very bad. Sometimes they acted like little batteries, producing about a volt from end to end, not what you'd want in a cap...

The color bands read like a resistor, it says the number of picofarads.
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