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Offline silly sausageTopic starter

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capacitor values
« on: January 26, 2025, 09:43:23 pm »
I have just seen a schematic from the 1950's it has a few cap values in uufd, would that mean pico-farad?,thanks.
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Offline bdunham7

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Re: capacitor values
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2025, 09:44:18 pm »
Yes
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Offline tooki

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Re: capacitor values
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2025, 09:45:43 pm »
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Offline TimFox

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Re: capacitor values
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2025, 10:55:38 pm »
From that era, you may also find "mmfd" as an abbreviation for pF.
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Re: capacitor values
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2025, 05:19:30 am »
Pf the picofarad.....

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