amazing !

maybe you meant k = kilo not K = kilo

Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Al Shinn wrote:
>   
>> Hey, lighten up!!, we are talking about a disposable camera here (see
>> the Subject).
>>     
>
> No, the part you are objecting to was about sloppy units.  And no, I'm not
> going to lighten up about abuse of units since it can be so damaging and
> there's so little excuse.  You were off by 12 orders of magnitude!  Anyone
> can make a simple mistake, but that wasn't what was going on here.  People
> who get sloppy with units, especially on a technical forum, deserve the
> modern equivalent of being tarred and feathered, schackled in a stock or
> pillary on the courthouse steps, or declared a witch and hung.
>
>   
>> The cap  fits INSIDE the camera, it's the size of my
>> pinkie!
>>     
>
> I didn't at all get that you meant to use a strobe cap from a camera to
> "fix" your NiCd batteries.  It sounded like you were espousing a general
> recipe to zap shorted NiCds back to life.
>
>   
>> and no, not milliFarads either - microFarads.
>>     
>
> Maybe now you can see why we have standards for units?  Go look up something
> called the "SI" units.  One of the key features is prefixes for powers of
> 1000.  Once again:
>
>   M = mega = 10**6
>   K = kilo = 10**3
>   m = milli = 10**-3
>   u = micro = 10**-6 (actually greek mu, but "u" is common for those
>       of us without greek letters on the keyboard)
>   n = nano = 10**-9
>   p = pico = 10**-12
>
> There are others, but those cover the vast majority of real world
> electronics.
>
>   
>> This is a common practice for restoring NiCds.
>>     
>
> Zapping them with a charged cap is, charging the cap to 300V isn't, and I
> don't think 300V is a very good idea.
>
>
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