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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Basic bench equipment query
- Message-ID: <BzwHA7.6y@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:18:05 GMT
- References: <BzB8rD.BDp@hfglobe.intel.com> <2B3582F9.18867@news.service.uci.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <2B3582F9.18867@news.service.uci.edu> gkwan@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Greg Kwan) writes:
- >1. Get the best DMM you can--it's the most important test instrument.
- >I have a Fluke 77 and have been very happy with it, but would probably
- >go for an 87 or 79 now. You'll probably use the freq. counter since
- >it's a pain to fire up the scope just to measure a frequency...
-
- Note, though, that any frequency measurement using something other than
- a scope relies heavily on assumptions about waveform. When I first got
- my current scope, I hoked up a little audio-frequency square-wave generator
- with a 555 as an independent test signal. I was a bit surprised to find
- that my frequency counter read twice what the scope showed me. Turned
- out that the leading edge was sloppy enough to double-trigger my rather
- sensitive frequency counter. There is no substitute for seeing exactly
- what's happening.
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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