Talk:Ceramic capacitor

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In my limited knowledge, i beleive that ceramic disc capacitors are coded with a 3 digit code, i think it would be useful if somebody more well informaed than myself could add information about these codes - eg how to understand them and relate them to microfarads etc. Maybe include a link to a site with a table of values?

--sandeep, RF-Engineer 11:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC) A Ceramic capacitor consists of a wafer of ceramic material between two silver plates. Leads are connected to the plates & the entire assembly is encased in a protective plastic shield. This type is called a ceramic capacitor or because of its most comman shape a ceramic disc. Some ceramic capacitors however are enclosed in rectangular cases. There is no electrical differences & often the rectangular units are called ceramic discs anyway.