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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by lazide on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:33PM (#41833944)
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.

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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by carlmr on Monday October 14, 2024 @01:42AM (#41834534)
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.
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by lazide on Monday October 14, 2024 @02:02AM (#41834642)
Just wait until you see the actual dimensions of a 2x4!
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by ssl-3 on Monday October 14, 2024 @06:05AM (#41835996)
I owned a house once that was balloon framed, with 2"x4" black walnut studs in the walls.

They just don't make things like they used to. :)

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