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Measuring Electrolytic Capacitors with DMM

Posted on 17 mei 2024 by pa4tim

This during a repair. I did some measurements to show that a DMM is unfit to measure capacitance with the goal to know if it is bad. New Panasonic low ESR FM, 50V 22 uFLCR meter: 21,01uF, D=0,025 at 100 … Continue reading →

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HP-410B vacuum tube multimeter

Posted on 19 juli 2017 by pa4tim

This VTVM is usable upto 700 MHz and with a given correction up into the GHz range. It was at the time of design one of the best benchmeters. That was the 410A, the competition was the GR-1800A that I … Continue reading →

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Philips PM-2420 nixie DMM

Posted on 13 juli 2017 by pa4tim

A very nice Philips meter, probably made in 1968. It is a digital meter with nixies as display. A big contrast with my HP-410B, a huge vacuum tube equipped analog meter build in the same year.  The meter only has … Continue reading →

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