[Elecraft] Puffing to keep up with the Nanofarads...

Larry Phipps larry at telepostinc.com
Thu Dec 16 13:49:12 EST 2004


Guilty on the age charge! I also remember uufd... and what's this 
newfangled Hz thing? Hi Hi.

Larry N8LP


Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

>Larry, N8LP wrote:
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>Oops... it was pointed out to me off-list that the required cap is 4.7 
>"nf"... not the 4.7 "pf" I misread it as. I would expect 4.7 nf more 
>commonly to be written as .0047 uf, but maybe it's an international thing.
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>Your "age" is showing Larry. Even though I do it every day, day in and day
>out, nf just isn't intuitive to me. I constantly do a double-take and
>mentally shift that decimal point over three spaces. 
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>But we're doomed. The engineering schools today use nf just as often as my
>instructors used pf and ufd. My capacitor meter even defaults to the nf
>scale!!!
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>Shoot, I remember when pf was never seen in electronics. Picofarad was
>written micro-microfarad or uufd.
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>Sometimes I feel like I'm "puffing" along to keep up, Hi!  
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>Ron AC7AC
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