Gerry Sweeney's got a capacitance decade out aswell now Brilliant

[M0BSW]

Gerry's got a capacitance board out now as well Brilliant have a look here's the link 

[Christe4nM]

Yep, saw his blog yesterday. Decided it was time to get one each of his boards. Quite handy to have around.

[Ziltoid]

I think he should have used dip switches instead of jumpers.

[dr.diesel]

I think he should have used dip switches instead of jumpers.

Dip switch are not nearly as durable as jumpers.

[BravoV]

I think he should have used dip switches instead of jumpers.

Dip switch are not nearly as durable as jumpers.

+1, especially the cheap one.

[ddavidebor]

And jumper are very easy to replace, modify or change

[c4757p]

I think he should have used dip switches instead of jumpers.

I just felt a chill run down my spine.

[jancumps]

"As well" is two words.

Thanks alot.

[komet]

"As well" is two words.

"As well" are two words.

[c4757p]

"As well" is two words, as the quotation marks group all the shit between them into one phrase, and that phrase is made up of two words.

"As" and "well" are two words, as are "donkey" and "pencil", but that sentence implies nothing about their use when grouped together.

[TerminalJack505]

Allright now.  Let's not goto extremes.   

[c4757p]

I hate you.

[mariush]

I guess it's OK... but I think 10% tolerance is a bit too much for my tastes. 

[c4757p]

I think I'd be OK with 10% on a capacitance box. Makes up for how stupidly accurate I'd want a resistance box to be... I typically use the E2 series for capacitance values: 10 and 47!

[MrAureliusR]

Man, I want both of those boards so bad... I'm eventually going to build my own decade capacitance box. It's the damn decade switches that are so expensive! But I like the rotary knob idea although I certainly like these ones as well..

[gerrysweeney]

I guess it's OK... but I think 10% tolerance is a bit too much for my tastes.

I know what you mean with the tolerance - I wanted to get better than that but cost remained a driving factor and things start to get very expensive in SMD when you increase the tolerance. The caps I selected are consistently better than 5% in tolerance but they are rated at 10% so thats what I put on the board and in the specs.

In use though the absolute value is less important that the ability to trim to the right value I find, I tend to check with an LCR meter once I know what value works, you still end up picking a "nearest" preferred value for your final circuit most of the time.

Gerry

[gerrysweeney]

Gerry's got a capacitance board out now as well Brilliant have a look here's the link 

Thanks for posting. I am very luck to get the support for these simple projects and I really appreciate it, I am delighted to make stuff that people actually find useful. I guess simple-low-cost-useful combination is a good one.

Gerry

[Fsck]

it's also gorgeously compact and stupidly simple (KISS!) which makes it even better.

[WarSim]

I bought two of them and there was one small assembly issue.  The connection triplets are created by a double and a single.  The problem was the single was slanted out about 3deg from the double.  I considered re-soldering the single strips but ended up just bending the rows back vertical.  No idea if it will effect longevity. 
I don't know if there is a manufacturing solution to avoid this that will not cause too much cost.  I haven't thought of a solution that would be cheep enough, not knowing the part delivery packaging. 
But Gerry may want to bring this up with his manufacture for possible compensation this run and a fix for next run.