The resistors and capacitors that have that designation - 0603, 0805 - refer
to English units - and are like .060" x .030" or .080" by .050".

HOWEVER!!

I have noticed that many companies are switching over to the metric system,
and this includes renaming the discrete nomenclature.

There ARE - I believe a couple that translate to metric - and are 0805 and
0603. I think. (I would have to research this - and right now, I am doing
this from memory.)

So - be careful - and do not generalize - but generally speaking... <grin>
it's in English units - and not metric.

Regards,

James Jackson
Oztronics


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karthik, P.V.S. (IE03x)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:38 AM
Subject: [DC] Doubt


> Hi All,
>
> I have a doubt. It may be a very small one. I would like to know what the
> sizes 0603, 0805 etc etc specify?
> Does 0603 mean that the size of that discrete component is .6mm x .3mm ?
> Likewise is 0805  0.8mm x 0.5mm ?
>
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