Capacitor - Resistor question??

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Rebuilding a Midway Power supply for my Kickman, location C205 calls for a Capacitor, 820pf axial ceramic capacitor (no wattage specified by Midway). So I order one on Mouser but it looks different than anything else on my board, and they only had 100v versions of this. I have 3 supplys and this particular component on the one I am repairing looks like a resistor. See the photo below, can I use the new mouser version (it says kemet multilayer ceramic cap at 100v 820pf 10%??????
 

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Anyone know the answer here, I need to know if I can use these components....
 
Rebuilding a Midway Power supply for my Kickman, location C205 calls for a Capacitor, 820pf axial ceramic capacitor (no wattage specified by Midway). So I order one on Mouser but it looks different than anything else on my board, and they only had 100v versions of this. I have 3 supplys and this particular component on the one I am repairing looks like a resistor. See the photo below, can I use the new mouser version (it says kemet multilayer ceramic cap at 100v 820pf 10%??????

Top item in picture is an 820 ohm resistor.
Bottom item is an 820pF capacitor.
Two totally different animals.
What does it show in the schematics?

A "C" number (such as C205) typically references a capacitor and an "R" number typically references a resistor. Could have been a manufacturer modification to the supply to change the capacitor to a resistor but without knowing the board's design, I can't help on that one.
Could have also been that somebody previously worked on that board and inadvertently replaced an 820pF cap with an 820 ohm resistor.

Is there a scanned section of the scematics on the web anywhere?

Ed
 
Top item in picture is an 820 ohm resistor.
Bottom item is an 820pF capacitor.
Two totally different animals.
What does it show in the schematics?



Ed

There are capacitors that look like resistors and have color codes like those...

32NE0179.GIF
 
Thanks Channelmaniac, that is good news. The schematic calls for a "820pf ax. cer" cap at that location, I just have never seen these on anything I have worked on, and wondered, and I have seen that "resistor like" cap on a few things before, but like stated above, screams resistor to this hobbyist....anyhow, I will throw it in there and give her a try, anxious to complete this and hope the kickman boots, as the monitor and PS were shot when I got it and have no way of knowing whether or not its good, almost have the GO7 going as well.....hoping its the best $50 I have spent...
 
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