Identifying a ceramic capacitor

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I'm having trouble to identify this bad boy:

'680' or '089' i don't even know how to read it. Can someone give me the value ?

I used a Chinese T4 LCR on it and according to the result the value is 61/62 pF

What the difference between this next capacitor (except value) and the previous one if there is any?

+/- 10% is a reasonably normal tolerance for capacitors. Not accounting for the meter you used. 68pF is what I would expect from the print. — jippie, Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 19:47

brhans · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-07 19:36:20Z

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Your LCR is not lying to you (much).
680 translates to 68x10⁰ and is given in units of pf.
So 680 = 68pF

There is no difference in capacitance value between those 2 examples, they're both 68pF but the orange/brown one doesn't explicitly specify the 0.

answered Mar 7, 2016 at 19:27

brhans

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\$\begingroup\$ Reference: for aluminum electrolytics (and tantalums, I suppose), the value is usually in microfarads. \$\endgroup\$
– user65586
Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 19:31

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