On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:50:26 -0400, Vinnie S.
wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:18:30 -0400, Dave Hall wrote:

Have it properly aligned by a tech with calibrated equipment.

That's good for you, but not for the other guys who align with a
"galaxy" frequency counter.


Dave,

Do you recoomended a decent Freq counter I can get on ebay for aound $40? They
have a ton of older HP and BK Precisions. I had a Fluke 1900A, but it died on
me, and I am looking to replace it.

Well, as a matter of course, you get what you pay for. To me $40 is in
the "recreational user" category. For true lab precision quality test
equipment, you're going to pay a lot more (Unless, of course, it's 30+
years old, and then I'd have my doubts about calibration).

I have a Fluke counter, which I obtained about 8 years ago. At the
time I got it, the calibration was about a year old. While the
optional heated crystal oven high precision timebase is fairly stable,
I'm sure there's been some drift in the last 8 or 9 years.

So even if you get a "Lab quality" counter, unless the seller can
provide calibration traceability, you still don't know how accurate it
might be.

Dave
"Sandbagger"



Vinnie S.