Re: [EE} nano Farads

On 2026-02-09 5:08 p.m., CDB wrote:
> 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. :)
>
That's a pretty long trip. Worthy of an Artemis mission. Personally, I 
fly if it's much more than 1Mm.

Best regards,

Spehro Pefhany


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> On 10/02/2026 00:55:27, "David C Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Why are some distributors so reluctant to use the unit nanoFarad?
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>> I have recently sourced some 4,7nF capacitors and they are described by
>> Digikey as being 4,700pF and by Nerwark as .0047uF
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>> I find it most confusing
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