Another LCR meter topic  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: PA4TIM
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 12:04:41 am
content: Does anyone has experience with this one. I like the compact format and quick measure mode, but it is a bit dissapointing it is only 0.01% and probably better. They are real cheap for sale at IET labs.http://www.ietlabs.com/capacitance/capacitance-meter-bridge/genrad-1620-capaitance-bridge.htmlTo bad resolution is only 10E-5 pF. But until I can affort a Unit-T or other Chinese topbrand I must do it with this.Oops, LCR, so I need this for L an RAlso nice and portable, the bummer is it only has 200pH resolution, Nah, can't have it allYou want a tear down ? No problem. A GR1608, small compact LCRG meter:Had to change all germanium, wrote a letter to General Radio that it is really a bad thing the germanium transistors only lasted 50 years but I never get an answer so company support is not what it used to be. But, thank God, we have Henry Hall, and he still gives good support so all got well in the end. (Hall is the man who made allmost all GR bridges and now in his 80's)Ok one for the road, but this is realy big, not for portable use:Hmm, I think I have a language problem, always mix up large and small, good and bad, but the doctor said it is either denile or a virus

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 12:32:40 am
content: I love it. I'm not sure it would survive the drop test though

author: JuiceKing
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 12:58:27 am
content: Yes, but these won't work properly unless set up on big mahogany desks and operated by men in business suits or white lab coats.

author: twbranch
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 01:12:30 am
content: I love vintage technology! I have the GenRad also!

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 07:42:08 am
content: Quote from: JuiceKing on October 13, 2012, 12:58:27 amThis is definitely a white lab coat thing. Oh, how I miss the times when wearing a white lab coat with one (only one!) pen in the pocket was all the rage and imperative when you were a working engineer.

author: Amarbir[Lynx-India]
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 09:02:53 am
content: Nice Nice ,I just Spend USD 400 For Shipping My Vintage Collection To India Lol ,Very Nice to know we all are as crazy in collection as we can get

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 09:14:53 am
content: Quote from: Amarbir[Lynx-India] on October 13, 2012, 09:02:53 amPlease spend one dollar for a prying tool to rip out the shift key of your keyboard.

author: PA4TIM
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 09:19:10 am
content: My smallest bridge.3 pF or 3 uH full scale. Real nice thing and handy zero function. Clever deign and even more clever calibration option. But I miss the calibration adapter. Not a problem, i have standards but it would be nice to haveJuiceking, the only thing missing in my collection, a white coat and such a thing to put pens in so you can put them im your pockedAnd an electronics sliderule, love to have one that converts lings like Cs to Cp or calcuate reactance ect.And there was one that HP made for network analyse work. It converts RL to Z ect.Probably if I look on ebay i will find one but no clue about brands and types and no ebay account, so i then end up with just the wrong one ( i have two nomal sliderules, not because i used to work with them, i'm no old enough for that, but they helped me to get a better understanding for math and numbers because I have dyscalculus)

author: Amarbir[Lynx-India]
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 09:22:16 am
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on October 13, 2012, 09:14:53 amPlease spend one dollar for a prying tool to rip out the shift key of your keyboard.Sorry ,i Have a habit in writing in title case .I try to write in the way it should but its a old dirty habit .I am sick of people pointing out here .Even my website is using title case .Its a habit that will die with me ,But i always try .I feel quite hurt when someone out of the blue just keep pointing it again and again .

author: Amarbir[Lynx-India]
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2012, 09:28:08 am
content: Quote from: PA4TIM on October 13, 2012, 09:19:10 amWell,Thats awesome .As far as i am concerned its very expensive for me to cart heavy vintage stuff to india .