I have been looking at crossover designs for vintage Tannoy 15" coaxial drivers. I located a schematic identified as coming from Moxtone Lab. I have tried to identify the values of inductor L1 listed as 4m7 and capacitor C3 listed as 4u4. I have searched this quite extensively on the net but cannot come up with a way to convert these values.
should be eqvt to 4.7 mH and 4.4 uF.
Even currently resistors are coded this way .eg 4r7 for 4.7 ohms
Even currently resistors are coded this way .eg 4r7 for 4.7 ohms
It is a modern labelling convention that is becoming more common. It eliminates any confusion that might resukt from a missed decimal point.
COnsider that if the part is an inductor the units will be henries, a cap will be farads, and a resistor ohms. The part indicator will then use the multiplier in place of a decimal. SO m for milli(henry), or on the cap u for microfarad), and resistors are a little different in that most of them are in multiple ohms rather than fractional farads. SO 1k5 means 1.5k ohms. In the case of plain old ohms, then 4r7 means 4.7 ohms.
COnsider that if the part is an inductor the units will be henries, a cap will be farads, and a resistor ohms. The part indicator will then use the multiplier in place of a decimal. SO m for milli(henry), or on the cap u for microfarad), and resistors are a little different in that most of them are in multiple ohms rather than fractional farads. SO 1k5 means 1.5k ohms. In the case of plain old ohms, then 4r7 means 4.7 ohms.
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