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!
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: 0.47uF 250V DC
Tolerance: 10%
Termination: Axial/Radial leads, depends how you look at it - the leads are at each end of the cap but formed downwards (for PCB mounting)
DIMENSIONS: 10mm Length x 8.5mm Wide x 9.6mm Height
Tinned wire leads are 4.75mm Length x 0.55mm diameter
TESTING:
Being old stock, I tested a batch (50) of these capacitors and the measured range was 500nF ~ 516nF - all reading a little higher than the nominal value but ALL within the manufacturers 10% tolerance band.
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 full available quantity showing on this page - substantial automatic discounts are applied for quantity purchases
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 (in fact a mountains of them!), this advertisement is for ONE capacitor only - not all that are shown ***
