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SparkFun Capacitor Kit
This is a kit that provides you with a basic assortment of capacitors to start or continue your electronics tinkering. No more looking under your desk to see if you can find a spare capacitor you might have dropped a year ago. With this kit you get over 100 of the most popular capacitors. As a bonus they come in a box with a sticker to help you identify which capacitor is which.
This assortment of capacitors makes a great gift for beginner and advanced electronics nerds at any time of year!
- 10pF capacitors (x10)
- 22pF capacitors (x10)
- 100pF capacitors (x10)
- 1nF capacitors (x10)
- 10nF capacitors (x10)
- 100nF capacitors (x25)
- 1µF capacitors (x10)
- 10µF capacitors (x10)
- 100µF capacitors (x10)
- 1000µF capacitors (x10)
SparkFun Capacitor Kit Product Help and Resources
Capacitors
June 19, 2013
Learn about all things capacitors. How they're made. How they work. How they look. Types of capacitors. Series/parallel capacitors. Capacitor applications.
Capacitor Kit Identification Guide
October 1, 2015
Learn how to identify and use a variety of capacitors using the SparkFun Capacitor Kit.
Proto Pedal Example: Analog Equalizer Project
September 22, 2016
Building a gyrator-based analog equalizer using the Proto Pedal.
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Customer Reviews
4.7 out of 5
Based on 14 ratings:
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Just what I need
The Capacitor Kit was just what I needed in capacitors. It had a variety of capacitors, ranging from 10 picofarad to 100 microfarad. The larger capacitors are very good, and seem reliable, for cutting power supply glitches, and the smaller ones in timing circuits.on the 555. They came on time, too, which i was pleased with. Ordering wasn't too difficult, after being found on the SparkFun site. Because of this, I think this is a good buy.
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Product Receipt
Product was received in a timely manor, package well and at a competitive price. Overall a good experience as is usually the case with sparkfun.
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Capacitor tester
Inexpensive, fun to construct, and useful. Works great.
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Working Great
building a power supply. So far the caps seems to get the job done
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Good products and good service.
I was very pleased with the service and the parts I bought.
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cap kit
I was building a qrp labs 20m kit and was missing a 104 cap, most likely on the floor hiding under a paper dot. so I ordered the cap kit. great service and fast shipping. bookmark the site.
Good product
This kit is perfect for most project needs and was delivered extremely quickly. I'm very satisfied and happy.
Parts are parts
What I really like about this request for more input is that the link doesn't come with loads of nasty cookie garbage.
I am confident the caps work just fine ninety percent of the time.
Todo llegó a tiempo y en perfecto estado.
stock
came fast and was as stated
Nice
Great kit good selection
What are the tolerances of these capacitors?
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Otherwise, the voltage rating is listed in the identification guide.
Doesn't the manufacturer provide this along with the product? The Identification Guide does not mention tolerances.
The identification guide does list the voltage rating for the capacitor, which is technically a tolerance of the capacitor. However, if you reach out to our technical support team with the exact details of what you are looking for, we can try to make an inquiry with the manufacturer.
That being said, these are cheaper replacement parts... so I expect the tolerance on the capacity to reflect that. Additionally, based on the markings, the manufacturer may not have that information.
I wish you'd carry more ceramic caps outside of this kit!!
Are pF and nF capacitors tantalum or ceramic? I am looking for tantalum capacitors kit...
They make tantalums in pF and nF scales? I thought they were primarily µF scales and up as a smaller size/µF package than aluminum electrolytics? (And having lower ESR, more spectacular failure modes, etc.)
The pF and nF scales are probably MLCC, also known by some as monolithic ceramics (that's what the pictures look like).
Ok... I just quickly checked DigiKey and found tantalums in the tens of nF range, the cheapest were $0.31/ea and axial. The picture caps are radial. My (generally uninformed) guess is tantalums in this size are specialty components, not something one would expect in a generic kit such as this.
If you are set on tantalum, then you could take your chances with a grab bag. Jameco also has a kit that goes down to 100nF. However this Sparkfun kit is a good general purpose ceramic and electrolytic kit with a nice balance between price, number of components and capacitance range.
Awesome! The resistor kit has really come in handy - so much easier than trying to guess what resistors/capacitors you'll need when ordering
I was going to ask if the sticker could be included in the box (instead of pasted to the outside of the box as shown in the new product video). This would allow the sticker to be put on the divided bin that the caps would eventually be put into for organization. But, I see you provide the sticker image as a pdf and I have a bunch of label paper sitting under my printer. Thanx.
Yep, you have options. Also, each value has its own little baggy so you can just leave them all in the box for those without spare bins. I want to see someone blow it up poster size and place it on the wall!
I don't see why even wall sized wouldn't work. I zoomed in 6400% in Adobe Reader and the only elements that looked rasterized are the white speckled weathering, and the digits for the barcode. Everything else appears to be vector (though I suppose the barcode itself could be rasterized, but it wouldn't show). Just need a ream of copy paper and time on a color printer, or a roll of paper and access to time on a large-format printer. I used to have the latter....