[sdiy] Weird tubular, grey (sometimes blue) resistors

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Nov 13, 2007 12:34 PM, Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Neil Johnson wrote:
> > 13anthony wrote:
> >
> >> (Speaking of Ohm, once I was pondering the unit for transconductance
> >> or is it permittance? anyway I thought, "How fortuitous that a
> >> scientist came along whose name is Ohm spelled BACKWARDS!" And then it
> >> dawned on me... duh!
> >
> > And the unit of elastance (inverse of capacitance) is...
> >
> > No, I'm not making it up.
>
> Hah!
>
> Oddly enough, the yrneh is not listed anywhere...
>
> Eric
>

I was thinking more along the lines of "Daraf." However, I can't for
the life of me figure out where such a property (the inverse of
capacitance) would be useful. I can see cases where you want the
capacitance to be as low as possible, but that's not the same as an
inverse property.


Tim (Ovres) Servo
-- 
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein