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Re: good MMC? (different than first)



Original poster: "Bill Vanyo by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <vanyo-at-echoes-dot-net>

> Well, I see that Terry has already explained why you
> can't use ceramic disc caps for Tesla duty. Now, re-
> garding your question about cap values. 1000 pF =
> 1 nanoFarad (nF) and 1000 nF = 1 microFarad (uF)
> so, 1,000,000 pF = 1 uF
> 
> David Rieben

And an occasional source of confusion for me is that 1000 uF
(microfarad) = 1 millifarad (mF), although "mF" is often seen being used
to abbreviate microfarad.

	-  Bill