Re: [EE} nano Farads

And there are people like me who have come around to the thinking 4700uF 
should actually be 4.7mF.

Now I'm off for 1 gigametre car journey. :)

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On 10/02/2026 00:55:27, "David C Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Why are some distributors so reluctant to use the unit nanoFarad?
>
>I have recently sourced some 4,7nF capacitors and they are described by
>Digikey as being 4,700pF and by Nerwark as .0047uF
>
>I find it most confusing
>
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