[ARC5] Mystery Component Color Codes

[Richard Knoppow]

    See the Radiotron Designer's Handbook, 4th edition, beginning on 
page 1335. Similar information in Reference Data for Radio Engineers, 
4th edition, both available free on the web. I think this is clearly 
brown = 1 for multiplier, Orange = three for first two significant 
figures, value in pF, i.e. means 33pF which is what it measures. The 
other two stripes are probably voltage and tollerance but I put the 
books away.
    There were two sets of codes, RMA and JAN, there is also the IEC 
standard but I think that was later. RMA and JAN are somewhat different 
but apply mostly to mica postage stamp caps.
    There were also a couple of British standard codes. Since you are in 
Canada you may have caps that followed one of those systems. They are 
described in the Radiotron book.

On 3/17/2024 2:26 PM, Jacques Fortin wrote:
> Isn’t it ?
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
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