capacitor values? help....

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pucho812

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Was going over an old schematic today..

Capacitor values were as follows 2m/160?

20M
1m5
20M

What values are they revering to? IS the 2m/160  2000uf, 160VDC? the 160 is obvious but never seen values written in a manor similar to resistors.
 
I would bet uF.....what's the application ? that way we can work out if they actually mean uF...
Some caps manufacturers use mF or mFd instead of uF for microfarad and for 1 millifarad they would label it 1000mF or better 1000uF and not 1mF to avoid confusion with existing wrong ways of labeling.
moreover a 2 millifarad 160V cap would be huge and not for audio purpose....
 

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Is the schematic in the link below the one you were reading ?
http://www.elektroakustika.cz/images/akg/c24_8.gif

if so here 2M=2uF, 4K7=4.7nF, 100=100pF and so on...
 
HOW "old"? It matters.

> 1m5

If you are looking at the plan AErige linked, that is "1M5".

(Yes, capitalization *may* matter*.)

On that plan, all seems clear.

Cathode caps are 20 micro-Farad, because that bypasses 2K5 down to 3.3Hz; no other point-shift (F, nF, pF) makes any sense. And if you only find 22uFd, that's cool, nobody can prove response extends to 3.0Hz.

Plate-to-OT caps could rationally be 1.5 micro-Farad. We don't know the OT impedance, but it's a "25K" tube, a 100K resistor, an OT in the 10K-50K range is suitable. 1.5uFd with just 10K would be 11Hz. But consider the tube it's nearer 3.2Hz.

Now the funny ones. There's "100" from plate to ground. Taking total plate node impedance as 25K: If 100 Farad you'd need a truck. 100uFd would short-out ALL signal (above 0.05Hz). 100pFd gives around 60KHz: passes all audio, diverts radio.

It is, IMHO, very odd to "assume" pFd when no multiplier is visible. However this IS how many modern caps are marked: "104" is a "10" with 4 zeros, or 100,000pFd (100nFd).

Then the "4K7" might possibly be 4,700 pFd. Check: it must swamp the ~~30pFd of the capsule, check. It should hum-reduce the voltage coming in through the 180Meg resistor. 4700p against 180Meg is 0.2Hz, so all audio is cut 100:1 and line-freq even more, check.
 
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