Need some help with Power converter

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  1. Kaicer

    Kaicer Site Supporter 2014

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    I testing a master system power converter for the genesis but it does not work always get a black screen. When I opened to clean it the first part was fine but when I take out the second part, the one that goes to the genesis the magnet was broke and break another thing like a resistor. The photo show what I tell.
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    I need to know what is it. I going to desolder the part to see if it has a number.

    Ok I take it out and it say on it something like
    Z
    E5

    a symbol I dont recognize and the number
    104
     
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  2. ApolloBoy

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    It's a ceramic capacitor, probably rated around 0.1 uF.
     
  3. omp

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    Apolloboy got it right, 104 means 10 and 4 (zero's) so 10 0000 or 100,000pF or 0.1uF.

    If the symbol you don't recognise is the one under the capacitor (looks like 2 "T" s lying down) that is the symbol for capacitor. E5 would be the capacitor's number. Z no bloody idea.

    Now for the lolz

     
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  4. Kaicer

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    indeed I found that is a 0.01uF, but can I use any ceramic cap. The Z apparently is a tolerance. But the question is can I use any disc ceramic capacitor or a multilayer cap that it look like the ones in the pic.
     
  5. APE

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    Any ceramic disc capacitor of the same capacitance (F) value sure.
     
  6. Kaicer

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    thanks I hope that fix the damn problem. lol
     
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    It has a 104 code on it so it's actually 0.1, not 0.01. If it was 0.01 u,F it would have 103 on it instead.
     
  8. Kaicer

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    Thanks apollo my mistake on numbers.
     
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