In a message dated 10/6/00 4:17:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: << I have no idea what uF means. I think it means Microfarads >> Bingo! You had a better idea than you thought. uF means u= (0.000001) X F (Farad)= microfarad. Your "guess" was correct. Coiling in Memphis, David Rieben