Use junk to measure your caps and coils
posted Jul 7th 2008 7:51am by Will O'Brienfiled under: classic hacks, misc hacks
[Cliff] sent in [N5ESE]’s junk box project page. Most of the projects are amateur radio specific, but one that caught my eye was his capacitance checker. If you’ve ever been looking through a pile of small, unlabeled caps, you know the value of a capacitance meter. This one is fairly simple and uses the AC setting of your multimeter to indicate the capacitance of the unknown component.
A soundcard and speaker workshop ( http://www.speakerworkshop.com/SW/Feature%20Summary.htm ) is also an handy free solution for ponctual or urgent
use.
Posted at 8:15 am on Jul 7th, 2008 by tReg