Capacitor Conversion Chart

Posted on 17-08-2021 by admin

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The capacitance conversion chart is very useful because different electronic component manufacturers may mark components differently, sometimes labelling as multiple of nanofarad, whereas other manufacturers may mark their equivalent capacitors as a faction of a microfarad and so forth. CAPACITOR CONVERSION CHART – uF / MFD nF pF / MMFD uF / MFD nF pF / MMFD 1000 uF / MFD 1000000 nF pF / MMFD 6.8 uF / MFD 6800 nF. Capacitor uF - nF - pF Conversion Chart. To use this table, just read across. For example, 1uF is same 1,000nF or 1,000,000pF. UF/ MFD: nF: pF/ MMFD: uF/ MFD: nF: pF/ MMFD. Repairing radios and buying capacitors, you often must convert between uF, nF and pF. Paper and electrolytic capacitors are usually expressed in terms of uF. Capacitor uF - pF - pF Conversion Chart to help you convert between uF (MFD), pF and pF (MMFD) as you read schematics, repair radios and shop for capacitors.

Capacitor values vary over an enormous range. At the bottom end of the scale capacitor types such as silver mica, and some ceramic types may only have capacitances of a few pico-Farads. At the other end of the scale electrolytic capacitors may have values of many hundreds or thousands of micro-Farads. In the middle of the scale capacitor types such as ceramic, polyester and a number of other types may have values measured in nano-Farads.

Capacitor value prefixes

In view of the enormous range over which capacitor values can vary a number of different prefixes may be used. This prevents confusion with large numbers of zeros attached to the values of the different capacitors.

The main prefixes used for capacitor values are given in the table below.

SI prefixes for sub-multiples of ten
as used with capacitor values.

Prefix

Value

10^-X

0.000001

0.000000001

0.000001

These prefixes are the standard SI prefixes and multipliers that are used throughout industry. They enable the significant figures of the capacitor value to be given along with the multiplier. In this way it is easier to comprehend and to remember.

Capacitor conversion table

Capacitor Code Conversion Chart

There is a certain amount of overlap. There are many instances where two components of the same value may be quoted in different ways: one may be quoted in terms of pico-Farads and another in terms of nano-Farads. For example 100 nF is the same as 0.1 micro Farads. The chart below quickly helps show what which values are the same and how many nano-Farads makes a micro-Farad and so forth. It can be used as a quick reference guide for capacitors, or any other electronic component when looking at different items from different manufacturers.

Capacitor conversion table for pico-Farads, nano-Farads, and micro-Farads

micro-Farads (mF)	Nano-Farads (nF)	Pico-Farads (pF)
0.000001	0.001	1
0.00001	0.01	10
0.0001	0.1	100
0.001	1	1000
0.01	10	10000
0.1	100	100000
1	1000	1000000
10	10000	10000000
100	100000	100000000