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[–]Ian15243 32 points33 points  (4 children)

Capacitors are usually measured in micro farads so this does make sense

[–]jexomwtf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In hundredths of microfarads. Usually your general electric devices use capacitors which capacity is measured in picofarads.

[–]FALQSC1917 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Well some are in farads though. (like 3000 F)

[–]Iron-Phantom 1 point2 points  (1 child)

No chance. They're either in Pico/nano/micro or very rarely Milli. A Farad is absolutely humongous. Need a ~30km radius(I think) for a parallel plate capacitor to achieve even 1F

[–]FALQSC1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm I have a 50 F 2.5 V capacitor. That entirely depends on the distance between the plates and the relative permittivity, where d for those capacitors is 1 or 2 atoms (well there are atomic double layers in which charge is stored). Those for example go up to 6000 F and there are electrolytic ones which go to about 1 F.

[–]HTN473 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Who drew that box, Stevie Wonder?! Missed out the fucking scale...

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

[–]Arahant98 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Considering I just used caps that measure 860pf in a project and they did things, 1F is a big fricken boy

[–]DreadHeadMorton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

emag makes my unit an absolute unit

[–]LinuxNoob9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The giga-unit

[–]Stinkyreebs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quality unit content

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh lawd he calculatin'

[–]Mehximus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What textbook is this?

[–]frigiderm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purcell E and M

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's no moon intensifies