I work on old tube radios and when I see SMD I think of silver mica disease. ??
(SMD occurs in the silver coated mica wafer capacitors in the IF cans as the silver oxidizes and bleeds to the mica edges, producing intermittent shorts)
Sorry for the aside. ?Back to listening mode.
Nelson Johnsrud
Manitowoc WI
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On Nov 28, 2024, at 7:01?AM, Kerim via groups.io <ahumanbeing2000@...> wrote:
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I used to think that SMD is the only acronym for surface mount components.
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It seems that most electronic elements are seen, since long ago, as devices more than as mere components.