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base unit one farad millifarad = 1/1000 farad or a thousands of a farad (seldom used for capacitors) microfarad = 1/1,000,000 farad or a millionth of a farad unfortunate the mixup of the prefixs "m" In some measurements such as current ..001 amp is expressed as one mA m meaning milli ..000001 amp is expressed as one uA u meaning micro So back to your original question - you need to ascertain the use of m A 50,000 millifarad is a whopping capacitor and not likely So it was probably 50,000 microfarads Hope that helps -- Caveat Lector wrote in message oups.com... Thanks for the replies... So what does 50,000 mfd translate to in uF? .5? .05? Mark Zenier wrote: In article , Al Arduengo wrote: If it says mfd it should mean mili-farads - not micro-farads. Nobody uses millifarads, except maybe the boom car crowd. "mfd" or more commonly "mf", prior to (the 1960's) metrification/SI rationalization meant Microfarads. And picofarads were "mmf" micro micro farads. Mark Zenier Washington State resident |
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