Re: L/C Meter

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Steve & Others,

For about the same money, you can buy a Wavetek 27XT digital multimeter
which measures a wider range of L and C and also frequency.  Many on this
list report they use and like it.
--another Steve

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Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: L/C Meter


> Original poster: "Steve Greenfield by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alienrelics-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
> Just wanted to pass on a recommendation for a piece of
> test equipment.
>
> I just bought a kit today, it is an L/C meter. It was
> a construction article in Nuts and Volts magazine a
> few years ago, this is an updated version, the LC
> Meter IIB.
>
> It has a max resolution of .01pf and 1nH and measures
> a max of 1.5uF and 150mH. It has an LCD display, auto
> calibration and zeroing. The calibration uses a couple
> of caps hand selected for each kit so they are within
> 0.5% tolerance. Uses a PIC microcontroller and one
> other IC.
>
> It is meant for nonpolarized capacitors, not much of a
> limitation IMHO. I have a cap meter already that I
> made with a couple of 555's that uses my digital meter
> for a display, I can continue to use it for larger
> caps and polarized caps. Measuring exact capacitance
> is pretty much meaningless for 99.9999% purposes above
> 10uF.
>
> It took me about a half hour to put it together, and
> that was with interruptions. The gentleman who makes
> it lives about a half an hour from here, so I just
> called him last night and went over earlier today and
> picked one of the kits up for $99.95 (plus tax, since
> we're both in WA state). You can buy it assembled for
> $129.95.
>
> http://www.aade-dot-com/lcmeter.htm
>
> I have no connection with Almost All Digital, I'm just
> a happy customer.
>
> Just make sure you discharge those caps before testing!
>
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