Need Japanese translation !! (capacitors)

Hi;

I'm in the processs of replacing electro. caps in an old Roberts Reel to Reel deck.

There are some questionable electro. caps that I'm trying to replace. These are the old "can" style caps and the color codes are written in Japanese (I believe) on the side of the can. There are 3 color dots; yellow, white and red but I don't know which value they're supposed to be as the sections all read low.

Can anyone tell from the side of the can what the designations are? If so, please take a look at the picture on my site posted.

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I appreciate any help. Thanks, Sparkey

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Go to

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and see if you can translate the color of the dots from english to japanese.

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Meat Plow

Sparkey,

In your photo of the cap, note that the rating is 250 WV *AC*, as in "alternating current."

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try posting to soc.culture.japan someone there might translate it well enough or know of a non-kanji jp.electronics/sci/tec group Post back here if you find a mor relevant group

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N Cook

What is the model number? Someone might have a manual.

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Michael A. Terrell

Those are the motor run capacitors. There are two seperate capacitors. "X" or "Y" type capacitors would be suitible replacements.

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Michael A. Terrell

"1969". How's that for a plain-and-simple date code? Can't get much clearer than that...

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DaveC

My guess - this has an AC motor for the deck. The capacitor is the start / run cap for the motor.

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Homer J Simpson

The ratings are right there in english as well, it's a 2 section cap consisting of a 1uF and 2uF capacitor in the same can, both rated 250V AC, so non-polar electrolytics. You can replace them with two separate capacitors.

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James Sweet

Did you miss the 1.0uF, 2.0uF and 250V in English ?

I imagine that's a motor run cap.

Graham

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Eeyore

nothing to translate. it's all there. 2.0 Uf 250 WV (working volts) AC (NON polarized) if you ask me, it looks like a bellast cap/

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Jamie

Of course the OP can read the values of the capacitor's sections, but he needs someone who can translate the colors of the dots, which will tell him which terminal is the 1.0uF and which is the 2.0uF. The American-made multisection can capacitors of days gone by had symbols (circle/semicircle/square/triangle etc) to identify which terminals had what capacitance values. These Japanese units used color dots to indicate which terminal was which. I tried to get BabelFish and a shareware program called MultiTranse to translate the colors, but didn't get anything near the symbols on the capacitor. Maybe I wasn't using the right font/character set??? Don't know much about the Japanese language or their symbology. Maybe there is someone lurking in here that could translate the colors for the OP??????

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The terminal colours need translating ...

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Arfa Daily

The 2.0uF would appear to be red - see

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Maybe you can work out the 1u and common from that ?

Arfa

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Arfa Daily

Wow.. how did you find that site?? Good show!!! If I read the symbols correctly, looks like the White dot is the 1uF terminal; that leaves the Yellow as common. Hope that logic holds true. Strangely, I didn't see any symbols that translated to yellow that looked even remotely like the symbol for the common terminal.

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DaveM

Wouldn't the use of a simple cap meter sort this out?

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Esther & Fester Bestertester

It would, if the caps were not reading low, as the OP said in his first post. If the 2u section has dropped below 1u, then it would be hard to identify for sure, by this method. About the only possible hope would be that both sections had gone low together, so the 1u section still read lower than the 2u. It should be easy enough to work out which is the common though, because with the common open, both caps are effectively in series, so the cap meter lead combination that gives the lowest reading permed from any two out of the three pins, shows the common pin to be the one that was left open during that reading.

Arfa

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from the same site, look at ixeroo on this page - matches the yellow terminal:-

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Esther & Fester Bestertester

Does the motor it connects to have a wiring diagram on it? Many do, and if not, he could ohm out the windings to figure out which way to connect it.

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