Homebrew PCBs

I've seen it said that, for a given circuit board, SMD caps that are
the same size and shape are probably the same value. I'm not in a
position to test this (and may never need to) but has anyone heard
this? True? False?

On Saturday, March 6, 2010, Adam Seychell <a_seychell@...> wrote:
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>       On 6/03/2010 5:37, Stefan Trethan wrote:
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>> I've seen some ceramic chip caps with writing on them, but it's very
>> rare, about as rare as resistors without lettering.
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> Usually 0402 (1005 metric) resistors don't have markings. And I don't
> think any manufacture labels their 0201 (0603 metric) resistors.
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> It means investment in a capacitance meter is kind of essential.
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