Please help me identify this component

Started by arma61, December 22, 2008, 11:51:57 AM

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arma61

Sorry fot crappy picture, cannot get a better camera!!

so what is this component ?  it looks like plastic with some aluminium foil rolled with some insulation material  inside

could be a cap ? what value could it be, label says DIEL 100





thx m8s for help
Armando
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theehman

Looks like a polystyrene cap.  Probably 100pf.
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I love those old caps. for some reason I always thought they belonged on a space shuttle or something
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arma61

Quote from: theehman on December 22, 2008, 11:55:39 AM
Looks like a polystyrene cap.  Probably 100pf.

So any 100pF would do the same, isn't it ?

Quote from: cloudscapes on December 22, 2008, 12:23:18 PM
I love those old caps. for some reason I always thought they belonged on a space shuttle or something

Yes, it almost look, specially in this picture, like the space shuttle  :icon_mrgreen:
"it's a matter of objectives. If you don't know where you want to go, any direction is about as good as any other." R.G. Keen