[sdiy] Capacitor Values

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se> wrote:
>For
>electrolytic caps we also see these horrible 47000 uF things when it
>really should say 47 mF.

Heh heh, and I've been around long enough to have used
capacitors where 'm' stood for 'micro' not 'milli'...
I remember capacitors marked with 'mfd' and 'mmfd'.

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