"Forrest" wrote in message
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"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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"Forrest" wrote:

I've been posting about changing out the caps in my Toshiba TV. I have
gotten a lot of help, and being a rookie I sure appreciate it ...
thanks.
I'm at the point to where I'm shopping for the caps and trying to get
them
all from the same place and only have to pay postage once. I have a
question
about the (K) being added to a few of them. I think someone else posted
about that a month ago or so and I can't find it. Most just have the
number
of uF and the voltage but a couple of them are different. One says, 1
uF- 50
V but has a (K) above the uF, and another is labeled, 10 uF K and is 16
V.
What's up with that? It can't be multiplied by 1,000 can it? They are
both
pretty small in size. Gotta get this all figured out before I can order
what
I need. Thanks in advance for your help.

tolerance = 10%

http://electronics2000.co.uk/data/itemsaf/capmarks.php

Great! ... Gotcha. Seeing a "K" made me think of a thousand, but I
doubted it, since the cap was so small. Now, I guess, my next question is
... if I can't find one with that tolerance at the place I'm ordering
from, can I go with a 20%, if that's the best that they have?


It should be fine. When I fixed a few of these sets, I used whatever
capacitors I had on hand, they worked perfectly.