On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Doug Sutherland wrote: > -dsr- wrote: > [regarding capacitor for PT6302A ISR] > > 100 *Mega* Farads! Holy Smoke, Batman! > > -dsr- who is certain that we are really discussing milli or micro farads. > Micro farads. I don't have one of them micro symbols on > my keyboard <g>. Believe it or not, I have seen it > listed this way (MFD) on capacitor packages on the shelf > and they were micro farads. I am familiar with MFD (all capitals) meaning MicroFarad, but I thought that usage was really dated. :) Nowadays it's pretty normal to substitute a lower-case u for the 'micro' symbol.. i.e: 100uF. In this sense case _is_ important, as it should be. -- Josh Mayo. Just wasting bandwidth again... (Everything with a Grin :)
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