[sdiy] What does it mean?

[R.D. Hess]

--- Larry <ltroth at socal.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> Here is the silly question of the week.
> 
> I have been seeing ratings for resistors like 1k3 or
> 2M2.  How do you read 
> these?  I'm used to100K or 10M.
> 
> I've seen similar ratings, such as 2u2 or 4n7 on
> capacitors.  Again, how do 
> you read these?
> 
> Sorry about the level of such a newbie question, but
> I haven't paid much 
> attention to parts lists and schematics for the last
> 20 years, and in the 
> 70's and 80's I never saw part ratings like these,
> 
> Larry
> 
 
 Hi Larry,

 This is the European standard (and a better one than
the US standard, IMHO). When you see 1K3, read that as
1.3K. Similarly, 2M2 translates to 2.2M. Sometimes the
decimal point gets obscured in printing.  

 Rich



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