How do i know weather a component is a capacitor or not.?
Answers: There are plentiful ways to know whether a component is a capacitor or not. If you have a capacitance meter, you could judge its capacitance. If you have lone an ohmmeter, you could short out the capacitor, then unshort it and connect the ohmmeter across it (perhaps near a large series resistor) and see to see if the "resistance" changes as the capacitor is charged up by the ohmmeter. You could walk to websites with photos of capacitors, such as http://www.digikey.com, and look at examples to compare to your component. You could look at the nomenclature silk-screened on a printed-circuit board upon which the component is mounted. If the designation of the component starts next to a "C" (e.g., C203), it's probably a capacitor. You could look to see if the component has a capacitance significance printed on it, like "10 uF."
It is true in that are other components of cylindrical shape. While resistors and inductors are often cylindrical contained by shape, they typically have axial lead and color code bands around them. Quartz crystals sometimes come within really small, slender cylindrical cans, but they are typically identified by designations starting beside "X" (e.g., X1) printed on circuit boards.
Also, be careful that your unknown component isn't an electric blasting sunhat or something like that, which are also typically cylindrical. If you enjoy any doubts about that, DON'T HANDLE IT OR CONNECT ANYTHING TO IT.
Usually the components are comfortable to tell apart, and a resistor doesn't look close to a capacitor, etc. Caps tend to have 2 lead sticking out the bottom of a cylinder, resistors are small cylinders with lead at either cease. Without seeing what you have, I'm not much serve. Good luck.
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