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Sparkey wrote:

Hi;

I'm in the processs of replacing electro. caps in an old Roberts
Reel to Reel deck.

There are some questionable electro. caps that I'm trying to replace.
These are the old "can" style caps and the color codes are written in
Japanese (I believe) on the side of the can. There are 3 color dots;
yellow, white and red but I don't know which value they're supposed
to be as the sections all read low.

Can anyone tell from the side of the can what the designations are?
If so, please take a look at the picture on my site posted.
http://members.aol.com/ta7205/MVC-084f.jpg
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Did you miss the 1.0uF, 2.0uF and 250V in English ?

I imagine that's a motor run cap.

Graham


Of course the OP can read the values of the capacitor's sections, but he needs
someone who can translate the colors of the dots, which will tell him which
terminal is the 1.0uF and which is the 2.0uF. The American-made multisection
can capacitors of days gone by had symbols (circle/semicircle/square/triangle
etc) to identify which terminals had what capacitance values. These Japanese
units used color dots to indicate which terminal was which. I tried to get
BabelFish and a shareware program called MultiTranse to translate the colors,
but didn't get anything near the symbols on the capacitor. Maybe I wasn't using
the right font/character set??? Don't know much about the Japanese language or
their symbology.
Maybe there is someone lurking in here that could translate the colors for the
OP??????

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