On 2015-12-23 17:13, Henk Gooijen wrote:
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Jay Jaeger
Sent: Tuesday,
December 22, 2015 11:17 PM To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org Subject: Nuts &
Volts ESR Meter
FYI, the January 2016 issue of Nuts & Volts magazine has an ESR meter.
It uses a 1ma panel meter, but of course one could substitute a resistor
and use a voltmeter or a multi-meter with a 1ma scale as well.
http://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine
(Though I see the January issue is not there yet).
It also looks like one can get a 3 month complementary subscription via
the URL
http://nutsvolts.texterity.com/nutsvolts .
The digital edition is well worth subscribing.
Better yet, if you subscribe for at least 1 year you can be on their
"Preferred Subscriber Network" (no extra charge - just a check-box when
you subscribe) which gives you access to *all* the "digital archived"
(which I found to be PDFs) issues !!
(BTW, Everyday Practical Electronics, EPE, lost me as a subscriber when
they did away with ordinary PDFs and instead have this odd locked thing
with a plug-in. I refuse to subscribe to an online edition of a
magazine where I cannot be assured of permanent access to the issues I
paid for! I don't find their "EPE PDF" version with its plug-in to be
acceptable. I seem to recall that they restricted printing such that
one could not simply print it to a PDF either. Too bad.).
JRJ
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Thanks for this post Jay.
On the Viperpits forum I received a digital issue (PDF) some 8 months
ago.
I remember it was fun reading, even if I was not planning on building it.
Thanks also for the hint "Preferred Subscriber Network" - I
checkmarked it!
I subscribed just a few minutes ago. My first issue will be February
2016.
I have not yet checked, but with the "Preferred Subscriber Network",
I hope to have lots of reading stuff during the season's holidays.
Hmmm, as if I had nothing else to do :-/
The list may have a lot of chatter, but the "Delete" key is always within
reach. But your post is exactly one of the reasons to stay aboard!
Thanks Jay!
- Henk
Here is a link to an ESR meter project:
http://ludens.cl/Electron/esr/esr.html
I think Manfred may well be a member here.
A while back I invented my own ESR meter, it is not hard at all.
Essentially an ESR meter is an oscillator which puts out something like
50-100 kHz or so, buffered and divided down to a couple of hundred
millivolts (so that you can measure in-circuit without any PN junctions
conducting and causing errors). That voltage goes across the capacitor
under test, and parallel to the capacitor is a detector which measures
the AC voltage across the capacitor. You then calibrate the meter by
substituting known resistors for the capacitor under test and marking
the dial of the meter appropriately. Manfred's design puts the capacitor
in series with a known resistor instead, making the scale read in the
other direction. There are lots of ESR meter designs on the net.
Jonas