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Re: [motm] Re: [ot] [Q] Power Rail Conditioning

2003-04-11 by media.nai@rcn.com

At 7:50 AM -0700 4/11/03, John Blacet wrote:
>So far,  I have not seen caps *marked* in nF.

I've seen caps with "n", like those yellow box caps.

>The whole µF, nF, pF thing is really confusing to begginners.

Don't forget "MFD" and "mmF" :)  That it jumps every three zeros 
seems intuitive enough, but it isn't used consistently.  For some 
inexplicable reason,  engineers don't like nanofarads.  You never see 
a 100 Ohm resistor called .1K

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