On 08/24/2018 09:13 AM, Kuba Ober wrote:
I somehow didn¡¯t run into the xxxF notation, where the first digit is 10^-1. Writing 13mF as 013F would be be IMHO crazy. I¡¯d understand 0F13. But of course I didn¡¯t notice the decimal point in front of the zero in Chuck McC¡¯s post ¡ª he seemingly was aware that it was not 13F, perhaps. Only one mention had the correct scaling. I think that in this day and age, all electrolytics can afford to have the capacity written in SI units with international standard scale suffixes. With a zero leading the decimal point, if applicable. It¡¯s extremely easy to misread, say .200F as 200F :) Especially after a long day. I imagine over the years some lives and/or lots of money must have been lost to mishaps of that kind. A space probe, even :)
I never did understand the point of the 0F13 notation and have never
particular cared for it. Arbitrarily moving the units into the decimal
position seems like a very random thing to do.
But a leading zero makes 0.013F pretty readable, IMO.
The real problems come in, as Chuck pointed out, when the industry
does things like "MFD". Gads am I glad those days are over!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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