Thursday, 16 July 2026

Re: [Amateur-repairs] Test Equipment Question

May I safely presume your new system relies on present "equipment" in ones home hobby shop? (your comment " depending on how much ancillary equipment you might already have."

How does your system depend of the accuracy and repeatability of those existing equipment? 

As a retired developer, I have an extensive collection of electronic test equipment...some quite expensive for it's day, but all out of calibration and likely specifications.

What does your new system bring the hobbyist that a $200 China built LCR doesn't? 

Terry WA7LGY


On 7/15/2026 2:03 PM, K8BYP via groups.io wrote:
Since the Users here are more 'hands on...'

I have developed a very low cost L-C-R test system that can measure
down to 5 decimal place resolution and about 0.1 % accuracy.

AT RF FREQUENCY

Commercial units are on the order of $5,000 - 20,000 USD for a few MHz test frequency.

My system should be able to go VHF, but I haven't verified that.

Is this of any use to the Amateur world?

Cost "guess," $200 - 2000 USD, depending on how much ancillary equipment you might already have.

Dave K8BYP

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