Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Reinhard Zwirner Newsgroups: sci.electronics.components Subject: Re: Question regarding the identification of a component Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 22:12:22 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <68c0533e$4$10368$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net xwUV3fZX3Y1rrGZjWbeCXwONB91j4UikshcxGNhq3Mhr8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:SAtO6UqzvHaqtUt7KHPNw8ayd1U= sha256:ZZNIe9OB5IF4FLXoxM8xYuX9dt5AHnsJ4GkvKrNoZLI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.21 In-Reply-To: <68c0533e$4$10368$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.components:6593 bitrex schrieb: > On 9/9/2025 8:38 AM, Reinhard Zwirner wrote: >> Attention: fup2! >> >> Hello, >> >> In an older power supply unit for GM counter tubes, the high voltage >> (max. 1 kV) is generated by a normal push-pull voltage converter >> (switching frequency approx. 8 kHz). In the HV filter chain, this >> >> >> >> capacitor is connected in parallel with the following strangely >> marked component of the same size, >> >> >> >> which my Far Eastern multitester identifies as an 8 nF capacitor. >> That could well be the case, but why the strange marking? A VDR? What >> do you think? >> >> Many thanks in advance for your hints. >> >> Best regards >> >> Reinhard > > Maybe "41C" indicates the transition temperature for a PTC? The part behaves in no way as sort of resistor.