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Involving or pertaining to electronic component or circuit substitution.

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Can I safely substitute a 4.7uF cap for a 5uF cap?

Electrolytic caps have a tolerance of minimum 10% (the good ones), so 5 uF may be anything between 4.5 uF and 5.5 uF. For the 4.7 uF that's between 4.23 uF and 5.17 uF, so both ranges overlap for the …
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What is a secondary transformer?

12 V secondary transformer must be read as "(12 V secondary) transformer". So the word "secondary" refers to the indicated voltage, not to the word transformer. Note that the indicated voltage is th …
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