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Michael A. Terrell

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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On Sat, 01 Apr 2017 05:43:34 -0500, wrote:

The good capacitor is not labeled like a normal cap, so I don't know
what value it is. It says K 505J 250. (I am guessing its 250 volt,
but I am clueless about the uf value).

I did figure out one thing on my own (using Google).

505J is a Japanese way of marking a cap. In this case, it's 5uf.
So it's a 5uf at 250V cap. I can only guess the "J" means Japan.

J=+/-5% tolerance.

http://www.dummies.com/programming/electronics/capacitor-tolerance-code/

My thoughts too - but 5% seems a bit too good for a PFC capacitor.

1% would be excessive, at 5 uF. It's easy to make 5% film capacitors.

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