Recently Acquired 1969 Motorola Color Tube Tv

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Originally Posted by Lain94

Ok that is a relief, and makes things way easier knowing that. Another question though. It it OK to replace an electrolytic cap in the tv with a ceramic cap as long as it has the correct mF as mentioned and same voltage or higher. Or will the ceramic cap bother the tv? For example replacing 10uf 15V electrolytic with a new small ceramic one which is 10uf and has a voltage rating of 50v?

I am asking because I have a ton of ceramic caps laying around and it so happens SOME of them seem to fit the values needed for the lower volt/low uf caps.

Pay attention to the way that capacitance is expressed.
1000 pf (mmf) (uuf) = 1 nf = 0.001 uf (mf).
1000 nf = 1 uf (mf).
Most ceramic caps are less than 1 uf (mf). Even film caps seldom are more than 10 uf (mf) and they are very large in that value.
Mica are commonly in values 1 pf (mmf) (uuf) to 1000 pf (mmf) (uuf).
The reason for the most part for using electrolytic caps is that they are smaller and less expensive that other types for the same capacitance.