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Offline TeunTopic starter

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Identify Capacitor
« on: July 06, 2024, 11:26:45 am »
Hi,

Can someone tell me what kind of capacitor this is? Value, voltage, type etc. Or could it be a varistor? It came from a PA speaker which now has a DC voltage over the speaker. So I thought it was a decoupling capacitor.
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Offline Gyro

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Re: Identify Capacitor
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2024, 11:55:54 am »
That looks like a PTC thermistor, aka self-resetting fuse.  If you have DC voltage across the speaker (more than a few 10s of mV), the amplifier has a failed and the PTC thermistor has hopefully (but not necessarily) protected the speaker. Do not re-connect it until you have found and fixed the fault.
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Offline Rabbitoose

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Re: Identify Capacitor
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2024, 01:11:01 pm »
Mostly like a 0.65A PPTC
 

Offline Vovk_Z

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Re: Identify Capacitor
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2024, 02:18:45 pm »
Yes, it looks like a 60 VDC rated PTC Polyfuse (0.65 A?)
 

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Re: Identify Capacitor
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2024, 03:27:10 pm »
 

Offline DL1DLZ

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Re: Identify Capacitor
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2024, 08:04:32 pm »
Hi,

Yes,It´s a PPTC Resettable Fuse, 60V 650mA holding Current ( tripping Current = X2, 1.3A )   Yageo BK60 Series

Datasheet here
https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/3217130.pdf

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Offline TeunTopic starter

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Re: Identify Capacitor
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2024, 10:01:53 am »
Ok thanks for all the help
 


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