MS5308 large....NAH....My Wayne Kerr LCR meter is large, see attachments of similar units
These WK units are HUGE and gobble desk space. I am ashamed to say I have one in my lab right now, sitting on its tail up against a cabinet....its just too large and unwieldy to deploy on my desk tops. A wast I know, but in comparison, the MS5308 is positively compact Size is relative
Aurora
Curious if anyone heard anything about this latest device in the 100Khz handheld LCR scene?
This beast has color LCD and touchscreen capability.
a little less than $600...
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs/513448121-AT826-Handheld-LCR-Digital-Meter-wholesalers.html
in China it does cost only 350USD.
To share a number of the internal shoots.
It looks like it's NOT a 100KHz solution that based on the Cyrustek chipset. It looks like a FPGA based solution.
I also downloaded the IET Labs DE5000 manual as that unit uses the same chipset so is basically the same but with a different front panel IET rewrote the manual to improve it. I attach the chipset data sheet. The IET DE5000 manual is available here:
http://www.ietlabs.com/de5000-lcr-meter.html
Kind Regards
Aurora
Here's another one I just saw:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200KHZ-DIGITAL-BENCHTOP-LCR-RCL-LCZ-METER-TESTER-ESR-DC-BIAS-AXIAL-FIXTURE-/261020859321?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cc60e3bb9
It's not as pretty, but appears to have similar capability and sells for about US$470, shipping not included. Notice that it has provision to apply up to 35 volt bias.
Can anyone verify the accuracy of the Tonghui TH2822 meter? The vendor claims ESR is good to: 0.0001 ohm
I don't believe this number...
The new Agilent meter is good to: 0.001 ohm
I purchased the MS5308 recently and I'm not happy with it. I don't care about the size. I can only read ESR to 0.01 ohm though. I can get this quality with many other $100 ESR only meters. I should have read the MS5308 specs closer. I only need ESR and don't care about the other functions since I already have them on other meters.
In my opinion, if you're working with low ESR caps for speed controllers, or want to try measuring low IR battery cells/contacts, the MS5308 meter is not suitable. I will likely return it.
Can anyone verify the accuracy of the Tonghui TH2822 meter? The vendor claims ESR is good to: 0.0001 ohm
I don't believe this number...
The new Agilent meter is good to: 0.001 ohm
I purchased the MS5308 recently and I'm not happy with it. I don't care about the size. I can only read ESR to 0.01 ohm though. I can get this quality with many other $100 ESR only meters. I should have read the MS5308 specs closer. I only need ESR and don't care about the other functions since I already have them on other meters.
In my opinion, if you're working with low ESR caps for speed controllers, or want to try measuring low IR battery cells/contacts, the MS5308 meter is not suitable. I will likely return it.
Please don't jump to conclusions!
You could set function to Rs mode then it is 0.001ohm resolution
Is anyone using this meter with low ESR caps or low IR battery cells/contacts? I have a lot of variance when measuring in the lower end of the scale <0.03 ohm. Most of my caps are <0.02 ohm, and my batteries are 0.002 to 0.003 ohm