Another display type ticked off the bucket list

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The existing BT connections were enamelled wire twisted pairs, wax paper insulation, lead sheathing. BT technicians gave me a section when they were removing some

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Very pretty. Shame about the "Kelvin, g, s" legend; it must be American. I have a (very mild) hankering for a torsion wire galvanometer as used at school with its illuminated line moving a glass display.

Yes, that irked me too.

Similarly measuring time in mhos is one of my bugbears. As is measuring frequency in mHz - especially since one of my instruments is careful to distinguish between MHz and mHz on the same results display: 621mHz deviation from 10MHz.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/ ... msg3194292

Victor Meldrew is becoming my hero.

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Time in mhos? I don't believe it!

I then wracked my brains and remembered that mho was an old-fashioned unit for conductance, but the proper (SI) unit is siemens (S), not seconds (s).

We need Boltzmann's constant (k) to calculate resistor noise, requiring absolute temperature in kelvin (K), and remembering to convert from kilohm (k) when appropriate.

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I ought to start referring to capacitance values in Jars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jar_(unit)

I wonder if it is coincidence that my recent Sullivan capacitor is up to 1000Jars in 9Jar increments?
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