If you want to stop mu being translated back to m don't insert it from the symbols font. Most normal windows fonts have it as a character. Put the num lock on the keyboard on, hold down the alt key and type on the number pad 0181 other useful codes are degrees 0176 plus or minus 0177 half 0189 quarter 0188 squared 0178 cubed 0179
Millifarad sized capacitors are now common and I have seen one instance of one marked mF. With the new double layer supercaps multifarad rated capacitors are also available and someone is marketing a 28kF capacitor or if you prefer 0.028MF Nick Rouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wan Juang Foo" <[email protected]> > > Dear all, > The capital W is probably a font translation error that was not spotted. I> had much heart ache over this whenever I print something in a different > computer. I have had much experience with entire documents that have the > greek lower case m (micro=u=greek mu) being substituted for a plain lower > case m etc... It is very frustrating. > > This bring to mind a similar and more widely use practice in marking > electrolytic capacitors e.g. 10mfd instead of 10uF. It is oblivious to the > experienced engineer, mfd is read as micro Farad knowing that the milli > Farad component is probably the size of a chair! I wonder if this will > catch any technical types by surprise. > :-) > > Tim Foo ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
