Re: Awesome Quarter Shrinking Capacitors on EBAY

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Original poster: dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com 


Not true.  We use a number of vendors that actuall use milli-farads as units
of capacitance - particularly in the ultra-tantalum capacitor market.
For example, a 38mF capacitor would be 38,000uF.

Dan


 > John, an "m" or an "M" always refers to micro.  The standard units for
 > capacitors are Farad, microfarad, and picofarad.  Nano and especially
milli
 > are rarely, if ever, used.  I always wondered why cap manufacturers
 > couldn't use "u" for micro - it looks close enough to Greek "mu" and is
 > certainly much less ambiguous than "M".
 >
 > I think most of us have stories of EEs showing their ignorance in front of
 > the AAS techs....  And I have no problems admitting that I've been on both
 > ends more than once.  ;)
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 > Mark Broker
 > Chief Engineer, The Geek Group