question about Small Bear

[REGNAD]

i was putting together parts for a colorsound power booster from the original 1971 schematic and i noticed all of the caaps on smallbear have a mf notation. is that their version of uF - microfarads or is it millifarads? i couldnt find contact info on their site to ask them...

[StereoKills]

It stands for uF.

[REGNAD]

thats what i figured but i was using my online capasitor converter and it had a millifarad labled mf so it makes me wonder. have you ordered from smallbear and confirmed that their "mf" is actually micro farads? just want to make sure!

[aziltz]

millifarads is huge... no one uses that for small signal electronics.

[smallbearelec]

This is one of the items in my Product FAQ:

http://www.smallbearelec.com/Ordering/ProdFAQ.htm

Please check it out, as it will save you a lot of time. There is also a How To Order FAQ:

http://www.smallbearelec.com/Ordering/Ordering.htm

and I will make sure to add our Service E-mail address.

Regards
Steve Daniels

[REGNAD]

thanks smallbear, i never thought to look in the faq's for that. im still a little confused on the different types of caps and resistors. i m building a colorsound powerbooster from a schematic that is dated 1971 from solasound. am i safe to just use whatever componant that matches the values in the schematic?

[aziltz]

i would ready this site's DIY FAQ as well.  That can help explain components.

[ACS]

Don't know if this will help avoid confusion in the future - but as part of the standard ASCII character set, you can easily access a 'µ' symbol, in virtually any program or dialog box...

Hold down 'Alt' and type '0181' on your numeric keypad (it won't work with the keys up the top of the keyboard).

Other ones I use quite a bit:
Alt+0176 - °
Alt+0163 - £
Alt+0165 - ¥

Cheers
Aidan

[REGNAD]

hey thanks! just tried it, you followed the white rabbit didnt you Neo!!

[liddokun]

Also, a quick search with keywords "small bear caps" would have found you this thread:



http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=69816.0