Ok so I'm in the market now for a cheap LC meter. Doesn't have to be the most accurate thing in the world, just needs to give me a preferably +/- 5% inductance measurement on all the coils, chokes, filters, and toroids I have laying about. Budget is around $100 tops. Kits are OK. Would prefer capacitance measurement greater than 2000uf but smaller is OK.
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Re: Recommend a cheap LC meter...
If you are going to do a lot of inductor testing, you should get the one that can do ringer test also to find out if it has shorted turn.Never stop learning
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Re: Recommend a cheap LC meter...
After checking out my choices in the price range that I had to spend I ended up snagging what appears to be a NOS NIB Atlas LCR40 off Ebay for around $90 (almost got one at auction for $50). I say NOS because this unit does not have the disconnectable clips like the newer units have.
In any case this appears to be what I need... capacitance range from down in the picofarad range up to 10,000uf, inductance range from 1uH to the mH range... perfect for all those toroids and bobbin inductors laying around that I have no clue what the inductance is.
Finally I might could get some of those DC-DC SMPS converter circuits completed and even get a few transformers wound too.Comment
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