Re: good MMC? (different than first)

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Original poster: "John Crighton by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jcrighton-at-sia-dot-net.au>

> In the "good old days" most capacitors weren't up to the
> multi-millifarad range, and when they were the capacitance was expressed
> in microfarads.  The other unit of capacitance was the micro microfarad,
> one millionth of a microfarad, and commonly abbreviated as mmfd or uufd.
> 
> Ed

Hello Ed,
where I come from in the world, Sydney,
micro micro farads are called pico farads
and as an abreviation, called puff or puffs,
or for a bit more fun a  capacitor value of
say 100pF may be described as  100 poofs.  
  :-)))
Regards,
John Crighton