[sdiy] caps -- NPO or NP0?

[Brice D. Hornback]

It is NP(zero) which stands for negative-positive 0 ppm/°C.

http://www.avxcorp.com/docs/Catalogs/lthecap.pdf

I hope this clears things up.

- Brice
http://www.SynthModules.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TIm Daugard" <daugard at sprintmail.com>
To: "Neil Johnson" <neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com>; "john mahoney"
<jmahoney at gate.net>; "Ian Fritz" <ijfritz at earthlink.net>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] caps -- NPO or NP0?


> > >"N-P-zero" for "negative-positive-zero".
>
> > Schreiber claims it is negative-positive-offset (NPO), which doesn't
jibe
>
> MIL spec parts has no such thing as Oh. Any part number the military used,
the O
> was always zero. So here is one vote for "negative-positive-zero".
>
> TIm Daugard
>
>
>