Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep...
by halper on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:25PM
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By "mfd", do you mean µF? I have some basic knowledge of electronics and am not familiar with "mfd" in this context but assumed you must mean microfarad.
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep...
by lazide on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:33PM
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Apologies, yeah most motor start caps for some reason use mfd to mean micro farads. [https://www.packardonline.com/electrical/capacitor/motor-sta...]
I guess from before the days of Unicode?
µF == the same thing, but tends to be the ‘more correct’ modifier used in electronics and engineering, rather than industrial parts supplier catalogs.
Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep...
by carlmr on Monday October 14, 2024 @01:42AM
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Oh, wow, this is so bad. m usually means "milli" not "micro". At least they could have used u instead of µ, which is a more common replacement when you don't have the keyboard character available.