Re: (ET) Charger repair.

[Robert Adsett <subscriptions aeolusdevelopment com>]

At 07:04 PM 2/21/05 -0500, Paul and Sue Abendroth wrote:
> Robert Adsett wrote:
> > Surely you mean mF!  The largest capacitor I've heard of is on the order 
> > of 250F and that's a physically large low voltage multi-capacitor pack, 
> > not a something that would be suited for the output of a charger.
> It's not milli-Farad either it's micro. Since most typerwriters didn't 
> have the mu, it was common for years to abreviate micro-Farad as MFD.

Good heavens.  I knew some manufacturers of old had used mF for microF and 
that caused problems enough.  And I thought that practice had deservedly 
died out  5 decades ago.  If it's necessary to use ASCII characters all I 
ever see now is either micro or u (as a similar looking character to mu, I 
think they actually share a common heritage).  Using M instead is a rather 
mind boggling mis-use of SI prefixes.

Robert

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