Quote Originally Posted by ibanezjunkie
the capacitor (polarised capacitor) is just used for the tone pot, im not sure how it works, but i know thats what its for.

i think M 108 is 108 microfarads? or milifarads? or megafarads. porbably the latter.
Hehe, just so ya know, nobody really uses "millifarad" or "Megafarad" in general electronics. No Milli because it's covered within the ones we DO use, and no Mega because, well a megafarad cap would be gigantic and I think they are only used in high end R&D applications. I'm not sure they are even commercially available.

For context, it's common to use 1 Farad caps in very high powered car audio installations because a 1 Farad cap can dump it's charge faster than a 12V car battery and this ensures smooth sub bass response. Yes, that's a cap the size of a can of coke (or larger usually) that can supply power faster than a car battery.

Now a 1 Megafarad cap would be 1.0E6 or 1,000,000 times the capacity of that 1 Farad car audio cap. You could use it to power your street maybe, but it'd have no place in a guitar

For reference these are the ones we use.

Farads (= 1,000,000 Microfarads)
Microfarads (= 1000 Nanofarads)
Nanofarads (= 1000 Picofarads)
Picofarads