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SIEMENS 1nF 10% 400V Metal Cake Stack Film Audio Capacitors (No Blue End Caps) NEW Old Stock

Siemens

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HISTORY:

Sustainability is the name of the game! Anything (that has been tested and still functioning properly) should be repurposed creating saving in wasted Ee and reducing the poisoning our environment when items are buried in the earth at the local tip needlessly.

 

Never heard of Ee? It is a concept that creates a measurement of ALL things (not just electronics) that humans have made and the energy used in obtaining the raw material, processing the materials right through to a finished product and even should include the shipping of the item to the distributors/retailers.

If you would like to know more about Ee values, please take a look HERE

This Siemens capacitor is NEW, old stock

We used squillions of these in audio equipment production way back in the day, Siemens does not make these any longer - very highly regarded for audio equipment.

Strange name huh? The capacitor is constructed in a vertical stack, some call them cake stakes. The most distinctive feature is the exposed "gun metal grey" end sections onto which the leads are welded. By the way, if ever the side weld should fail (and they do sometimes if you stress the component too much physically), the wire lead is easy to re-attach using normal soldering techniques. So no epoxy or polyester coating at the ends, which also means keep your fingers away if "higher" voltages are being used!

I do have this capacitor with identical electrical characteristics available but with Blue epoxy end caps HERE

 

Siemens, Germany was a manufacturer of very high quality components used in industrial, medical and military equipment, not cheap but damn good! They divested their component production to other companies quite some time ago.

 

SIEMENS - Metallised Film Capacitor (1)

Made in Germany

Affectionately known as "cake stacks"

Extremely high reliability

Value: 1nF 400V DC

Tolerance: 10%

Termination: Radial leads (extending from one side but fixed at each end of the cap so they are "sort-of" axial as well!), depends how you look at it - the leads are at each end of the cap but formed downwards (for PCB mounting)

 

DIMENSIONS: 8.2mm Length x 1.95mm Wide x 5.3mm Height

Tinned wire leads are 5mm Length x 0.55mm diameter

 

TESTING:

Being old stock, I batch tested ten of the available capacitors and the measured range was 1.06nF ~ 1.1nF with the majority up in the range 1.07 ~ 1.09nF

 

COSMETIC CONDITION:

NEW Old Stock

Excellent physical condition

Clean bright legs

Stored in multiple sealed plastic packs but I am fine with supplying any quantity from just one cap up to the available quantity showing on this page

Keep in mind that these are left over production stock and there will be NO further on-going supply of these after they have all found new workshops.

 

*** Where the photograph shows multiple capacitors, this advertisement is for ONE capacitor only - not all that are shown ***

NEW Old Stock