merlin00724
March 18th, 2008, 01:41 PM
ive known about and used allen bradley/rockwell PICO for quite a few years, but today on ebay i saw a banner brand "PICO GUARD" controller. does the word pico stand for something withing the plc world?
RoTaTech
March 18th, 2008, 06:08 PM
1 x 10^-12
They just think it sounds cute and smaller than Nano.
Lancie1
March 18th, 2008, 06:10 PM
Merlin,
Pico- (symbol p) is a prefix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix) denoting a factor of 10-12 in the International System of Units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units) (SI).You might say that a "pico-guard controller" would be a very small guard controller.
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