advanced l/c meter

[peter g]

hi all, just joined the forum. my name is  pete and I live in s. florida. i'am a retired electronics field service tech for Philips . I built an l/c meter I found on an web site. its called LCM3. it works very well. I have some questions about the ESR in circuit measurements. there is a probe that you construct for this purpose. how do you calibrate the meter with this probe in place? should the meter display both the capacitance and the esr value? I burned the pic with Ver.1.25. does this code implement in circuit measurement or do you have to use Ver.1.35? the article for this meter can be found here: [email protected]  p.s. i'am in the process of building Mike's version of this meter.

 

[peter g]

yo mike, where are you?

 

[admin2]

Hi Peter and welcome to the community. Could you share your thoughts building this LC meter and if everything worked right from the beginning.

 

[peter g]

yes, the meter worked fine. I have built many esr meters, both analog and digital.

 

[admin2]

Can you point us to the most interesting ESR meter you've build?

 

[peter g]

yes, the meter that is really good is called LCM3. google it, I really like it, as it reads both capacitance and esr at the same time in circuit ,most of the time.

 

[admin2]

This is a popular ESR meter across the web and we also have a revision of it published here:

http://www.electronics-lab.com/project/advanced-lc-meter/

Regarding your questions on the first message, let's see if someone who has build it can help out.