[ARC5] More Condenser/Capacitor Trivia

[Ian Wilson]

1/900 microfarad = 1111.1 (recurring) pF .. but not 0.09 microfarad.

A 'jar' is often used to refer to a beverage such as a pint of ale. I wonder
whether the RN standard jar size is about a pint?

73, ian K3IMW

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:

> On 22 Feb 2016 at 19:55, Bruce Long via ARC5 wrote:
>
> > which suggests the units of micro-jars, nano-jars and pico-jars
> although keeping
> > with the old style terminology perhaps the latter would be more
> accuraately
> > refered to as a mmJ   ie  micro-micro-jar
>
> Ha ha! IMHO, that is perfect! I think I'll bring that up at our next radio
> club meeting in order to
> bring the "new-bies" a little more up to speed on our history.
>
> Neato!
>
>  1 jar = 1/900th of a microfarad or 0.09 microfarads....if I have my
> decimal points in the
> correct places....
>
> I can hardly wait! :-)
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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