[ale] need help identifying a capacitor

[Richard Bronosky]

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:55 PM, David Ritchie <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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