[ale] need help identifying a capacitor

[David Ritchie]

333J is 33000 picofarad - you might read
http://www.electro-tech-online.com/general-electronics-chat/8849-bunch-random-questions.html
for more detail...
A picture would probably be more useful (particularly if you have the
same capacitor
somewhere else on the board of the power supply)...

-- Dave

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> I have a highly proprietary power supply with a burnt mosfet that
> looks like it took out a capacitor with it. The mosfet is a:
> http://www.st.com/stonline/stappl/productcatalog/app?path=/pages/stcom/PcStComPartNumberSearch.searchPartNumber&search=D5NM5
>
> The capacitor looks like a film capacitor (a milk chocolate chiclet
> http://images.google.com/images?q=chiclet) with 333J<newline>400A on
> it. I've been looking for 333 jule capacitors but they all are rated
> for voltages, not amps... what should I be looking for? I'm thinking
> that since that mosfet is rated for 400v-650v, maybe I should get a
> 650v capacitor.
>
> What do you think about the capacitor?
>
> Where should I pick these up? I think I can get the mosfet from
> digikey for $9.31 if they can get it at all. I'm confused about the
> digi-reel thing.
> http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=std5nm50
>
>
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