Re: Oscilliscopes

Hello friends:

Siglent was the Chinese brand that I liked the most, but a failure in the firmware of their arbitrary generators has made me never buy this brand again, since I warned them about it and they never heeded my warnings, but they did about more banal things and without importance.

I usually repair and calibrate a lot of measurement equipment, from multimeters to spectrum analyzers, signal generators and many more related to RF and other measurement fields.

For years I have observed the Owon brand, and honestly they...

Re: Measuring any type of capacitor with ESR meter?

Hello:

Today to measure and evaluate capacitors you have to have a good ESR meter, if it measures more parameters even better.

Using a multimeter can sometimes disorient us, especially if low voltage tantalums are measured, when connecting them to the multimeter with reversed polarity the tantalums present a very low resistance, sometimes they are used in equipment for their protection against polarity changes or simply to create a very low resistance to AC voltages, they generate a short circuit that...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello:

I found this essential forum looking for information that in the end I forgot what it was when I started reading some interesting things about this forum.
The good thing is that I liked it and I signed up.
My name is Manuel, I live in Spain and I am 60 years old. I have studied electronics, helicopter aeronautical mechanics, industrial instrumentation with ISO 9001. I worked in several multinationals and I have been retired due to professional illness in the latter.
I have worked many...