What does 'puff' mean when engineers call a capacitor a '100 puff' cap?

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'puff' capacitor??

I work with a bunch of engineers/techs and they refer to (for example) a 100pF cap as a "100 puff" cap. What the hell are they talking about? Is this slang
 

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lennybogzy said:
I work with a bunch of engineers/techs and they refer to (for example) a 100pF cap as a "100 puff" cap. What the hell are they talking about? Is this slang

LOL. It's verbal shorthand for a picofarad, 10^-12 Farads.
 


crx said:
Puff the magic dragon ?

No, silly. pF the magic dragon. :smile:

Now, is it pronounced GigaWatts, or JigaWatts? That's a much more important question.
 


crx said:
Puff the magic dragon ?

Code: 
Puff the magic capacitor lived by the inductor,
And wallowed in the coulomb charge in a land called resonance.

Little Jackie paper was a dielectric,
Not as good as polypropylene or other fancy polymers. Oh
...

:wink:
 
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Great thanks for the replies thAt's what I figured. I used the term picofarad and they looked at me all weird. I got to be cool, start sayin puff. "yeH man just pop a 10 puff cap up in here an let's hit the club"