[sdiy] Capacitor R values?

[Tom Wiltshire]

Does that make more sense in Japanese than it does in English? Why would you use “R” for “mu”?

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T.

> On 10 Oct 2020, at 18:11, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <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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