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January 18, 2021 at 5:38 pm #228116
frankr
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    The general rule of thumb is +/- 10%-20% is acceptable for most non-precision circuits. And paper capacitors certainly are not precision. So 0.15mfd + 20 % comes out to 0.18 mfd. I don’t think anybody is going to get upset over that extra 0.02 mfd.