Capacitor Values

gerhard123 said:

I should've said this. I'm a musician, I need a capacitor for my tone control. I needed a .015 cap disc or whatever. The store gave me a .0015M. Is this correct??

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narkeleptk said:

.015 looks more like .015nF. Does it have the full value labeled or just .015?

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narkeleptk said:

.015 looks more like .015nF

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unclejed613 said:

no, it's 15nF. the OP needs 0.015uF. usually 0.015 with no other information (the "M" on the OP's cap from the store is the temperature coefficient) means 0.015uf. microfarads are assumed, unless the caps are very small, in which case, picofarads are assumed. caps newer than about the year 2000 will be marked with a 3 digit code, such as 153. you have two significant digits and a multiplier. 153 would be the correct code for the value of cap the OP is looking for.

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