[sdiy] Odp: Re: Semi-OT: odd capacitor values

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2016, Roman wrote:
> 0.105MFD or 0.225MFD is a couple of hundred nanofarads, so they have not
> gone down much at all.

I think that's the point.  If MFD meant "millifarad" then it would imply
the caps had gone down by a factor of a thousand or more to get from a
fraction of a MFD to a few hundred nanofarads, and that is not plausible
because the device still works, so MFD must mean "microfarad."

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