SubRosa
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Hello,
Tonight I began construction on my Pimeta and everything was going fine until I found that I am missing C6 (NP0 Ceramic Capacitor), I know I -had- one but somehow it has disappeared, these things happen. I do not want to place another order for a single part so I have been scrounging through broken (or now broken) electronics for a suitable capacitor. I've found quite a few 0.1" pin pitch monolythic ceramic capacitors but it seems to be impossible to find one of a value between 10-100pf (which I've read are the accepted values). The smallest I've found is blue and numbered 473, I'm not an electronics guru nor complete noob so I've only guessed that this is 47000 -something-, whether it be picofarad or microfarad (though I'm sure it is not uf) this value is much too high for my purposes, or so I've read. I've also found yellow capacitors labelled 104. What possible solution do you see outside of ordering? Will the capacitors I've described be "alright".
I'd also like to ask how important hand matching resistors is, I currently do not have a dmm (broken) and do not want to buy a new one (broke). I assume matching them is to help balance the left and right channels but am I really going to notice if I do not match them? I know I'll need a dmm to check offset and voltages when everything is complete anyways but let's just ignore that fact.
Thank you for your help.
Tonight I began construction on my Pimeta and everything was going fine until I found that I am missing C6 (NP0 Ceramic Capacitor), I know I -had- one but somehow it has disappeared, these things happen. I do not want to place another order for a single part so I have been scrounging through broken (or now broken) electronics for a suitable capacitor. I've found quite a few 0.1" pin pitch monolythic ceramic capacitors but it seems to be impossible to find one of a value between 10-100pf (which I've read are the accepted values). The smallest I've found is blue and numbered 473, I'm not an electronics guru nor complete noob so I've only guessed that this is 47000 -something-, whether it be picofarad or microfarad (though I'm sure it is not uf) this value is much too high for my purposes, or so I've read. I've also found yellow capacitors labelled 104. What possible solution do you see outside of ordering? Will the capacitors I've described be "alright".
I'd also like to ask how important hand matching resistors is, I currently do not have a dmm (broken) and do not want to buy a new one (broke). I assume matching them is to help balance the left and right channels but am I really going to notice if I do not match them? I know I'll need a dmm to check offset and voltages when everything is complete anyways but let's just ignore that fact.
Thank you for your help.