Re: 56K Modems

[Katipo <katipo@weavers-web.org>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 01:16:24 +0100
Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:

<Big snip>

> > s/US/UK/ In practical terms, if the smoothing can cope with 50Hz, it
> > will cope with 60Hz; it'll be in the adapter not the modem anyway;
> > and it's generally designed on the basis of "1000uF is big enough"
> > :-)
> 
> .."oh, I thought mF meant micro Farad?".  ;-)

No, uF is microfarad.

<Another massive snip>

I've also discovered that placing a tri-config. across the outlet i.e.,
positive to negative, neg. to earth, earth to positive, of three .0047uF
greencaps does a lot toward smoothing out fluctuations of all sorts.
Regards,

David.