I am building Pixie 40m CW QRP kit from eBay. This kit was bought about 3-4 year ago, but was left in the drawer, and had been forgotten all this time.
I found it a few days ago while clearing out, and I thought will have a go building it.
I soldered all the resistors on the board, and now its time to put on the capacitors.
The capacitor value for C1, C10 on the paper is 0.1uF (104).
But when I checked them with my DMM, their value is 65 pF. I would think it is 0.065uF? which is about 35-40% off from the spec.?
Are these within the usable tolerance, or these caps have gone off?
Thanks.
Check your build, post a schematic or something
On my sheet, both C1 and C10 is 0.1 uF (104).
Both C1 and C10 are not critical, 0.1u (or 100n) would be fine in the schematic floobydust posted. But get your units correct: 65p is 0.065n = 0.000065u
My guess is that you are not measuring correctly, can you post a picture of the caps?
Both C1 and C10 are not critical, 0.1u (or 100n) would be fine in the schematic floobydust posted. But get your units correct: 65p is 0.065n = 0.000065u
My guess is that you are not measuring correctly, can you post a picture of the caps?
I was using 3x different DMMs for the measurement, and they all showed same figures, but I think I wrote wrong on my OP. It must be 65nP, not pF.
I will check it again and update later.
65nF should not be a problem in the above schematic.
65nF should not be a problem in the above schematic.
Thank you for your confirmation.
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