10 Nov
2007
10 Nov
'07
3:25 p.m.
On Saturday 10 November 2007 16:46, Tony Duell wrote:
No, not these days, but back when 20% tolerance parts were common you'd run
into stuff like that from time to time. Lots of those old wax-coated paper
caps were ".05 MFD" rather than the 0.047uF that you run into these days (or
47nF, for that matter).
The colors he
said were "green, black red". Dunno if you'd call that
a=20 preferred value, but I've seen such.
OK, so 5k obviously... Not a common value in any series these days I think my question would then have been : Are you
sure it was a resistor?
I've seen picofuses with those colours (5000mA = 5A), although IIRC, they
normally have a 4th band giving the time-delay charactistics.
I didn't have time for questions, at least none coming from my end -- there
were four folks rapidly shooting them at me, in all sorts of different
areas. Overall I think it went well, and I just wish they'd hurry up and
let me know where I stand with this.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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