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Skyfox:
While I'm not a noob when it comes to electronics, this is definitely a beginner question because I've never noticed this before.  Attached is a photo from the motherboard in my Commodore 64.  I have to do some troubleshooting and repairs, and noticed this component.  It looks like a resistor, has colored stripes like a resistor, but has a green body as opposed to the traditional beige of neighboring resistors and is in spot marked for a capacitor.  The service manual indicates this is supposed to be an 82pf cap with 5% tolerance, which the gray-red-black-gold seems to indicate.  I had a very hard time finding consistent color coding charts, at least when it comes to the tolerance.  Some charts show gold at 5% tolerance, and others show no tolerance indication for that color.  I take it the white stripe is supposed to be the voltage rating, but one chart shows that's 3 volts while another chart shows that's 900 volts.  There are a few others like this on the board of various ratings.

Anyway, is this in fact an axial capacitor?  Certain other sources show axial inductors with a green body and stripes like this so I don't know how I'd tell them apart.  And does anyone have a reliable color coding chart for this so I know what the colors in the tolerance and voltage lines are actually supposed to be?  Thanks!

Wimberleytech:
Looks like a capacitor according to this schematic.

Nusa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code#Capacitor_color-coding
If that's correct, the white band indicates it met EIA standards.

tigr:
There are such capacitors.
Skyfox
Your capacitor is 91pF.

Jwillis:
Axial capacitors.I've see a few of these but never really looked at the construction.Are they a wrapped film or cylindrical?

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