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Originally Posted by bandersen
Huh ? You can use whatever units you like for any capacitor, pF, nF, uF, etc.
The original Motorola ballast schematic I've seen used 10uF AC capacitors. They need to be rated for 125VAC or better. When I did the math myself, I found that 8.2 uF is better for modern line voltages of around 120 VAC. I've built them with both values and they work very well.
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I thought I read that they are film caps which are not electrolytic where the UF comes in and film are typically NF . So if I use the calculator for 10uf and convert it to NF then could the cap be rated for 630v. I think that conversion would be 10,000 nf