That's the generalization made on the Motorola link that Tim posted Justin. That is also the value that the vendors have picked up on and are selling. At least a value that is close to .5uF, the standard in this range now days is a .47uF. If the dielectric strength is not given, which it's not on the vendors caps, then the only way to reverse engineer the value is to apply a voltage till you get a breakdown, of course then you've just destroyed an over priced $10 capacitor but you then know what the dielectric strength is on that series of caps for future reference.
To be very specific, what I was looking for were the actual, real, original, honest to god or how ever you want to put it, values of the Part Numbers; 1887829, 1911095, 7257919, 1910147, 1912900. I would like to know what the condenser values are that were specified by the GM engineers for the installation of the 986443 radio in the Advance Design trucks. I haven't been able to find any actual value specifications in any of the references that I have, just thought someone out there in the hinterlands might have run across them somewhere.
To just say, a .5uF cap will work in all locations is like saying that any tire will work on you vehicle, and they will, to some degree. But to optimize the performance of a tire, or an electrical component there are some that are better suited than others. I mean after all, a resistor is a resistor, just put one in no matter what size you really need and that should work, right??? WRONG!!! It helps to have the correct value.
But thanks for responding anyway.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
