[sdiy] Capacitor R values?

[Neil Johnson]

Hi Richard,

Yes, if you look at the last page in the parts list in Capacitors part
number 032-275 gives a strong clue that the "R" is used for mu.

Neil


On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, 17:54 Richard Wentk, <richard at wentk.com> wrote:

> I’m looking at the circuit of the old Roland VP330 and some of the
> capacitors are labelled “R0xx” - e.g. in the formant filters on the HVH56
> board, where C1 to C4 of Filter 1 are R056.
>
> http://dl.lojinx.com/analoghell/RolandVP330-ServiceNotes.pdf
>
> They\re clearly not component IDs but values.
>
> The only mention I can find online suggests this is shorthand for F,
> equivalent xRy for small resistors. But 56uF caps that aren’t electrolytics
> seem unlikely.
>
> So is this a strange way of writing F, or nF, or something else?
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard
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