Testing your components , good tutorial .

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If you want to know how to test various common components here is good tutorial.

http://www.talkingelectronics.com/projects/Testing%20Electronic%20Components/TestingComponents.html

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Thanks for posting the link. Really good reading and learning info. I actually saved the whole site and made a .pdf file of it about a year ago.
Forgot I even had it on my computer, thanks for jogging my memory.

I'll add this website for a cap cross reference chart, it has helped me in the past figuring out cap values when buying them when they are listed as different values:

http://www.justradios.com/uFnFpF.html