This is easy,
It's a feed thru capacitor. It could also be an X2Y capacitopr pair but the 
board is not layed out for minimum inductance so we are back to feed thru.

John Maxwell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Gregory" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] Strange looking ceramic component


Hi Victor,

Sorry for not getting your pictures posted sooner. I've been busy with a
fire here...

Anyways, got your pics up now:

http://stevezeva.homestead.com/files/PWB-FL1-1.JPG

http://stevezeva.homestead.com/files/PWB-FL1-1a.JPG

I'm not an electrical engineer, but I do know that they are filter
capacitors used to help with EMI. We place a lot of them on quite a few
assemblies.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Victor Hernandez
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:03 AM
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Subject: [TN] Strange looking ceramic component

Fellow TechNetters:

   I have a ceramic component, capacitor, with four solder joint
terminations.   My main concern is the component body size to copper pad
ratio.   Do they violate IPC standards?   I sent Steve G. some photos to
upload to his web page.

Victor,

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