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Upgrade from a DER DE-5000 LCR meter
mawyatt:
Here's an example of using the DE-5000 with the custom to BNC adapter with a Standard SMD LCR Meter fixture. This is with a DUT Precision C0G 0.1uF SMD Capacitor at 1KHz, note the comparative results with the Tonghui TH2830 LCR meter.
Folks with the DE-5000 and other handheld quality LCR Meters should consider this DIY to BNC Adapter, doesn't cost much and is easy to make. One could place the BNCs on a plate or L bracket to hold in place at the proper spacing for easier use, something on our to do list. It expands the handheld LCR Meter use especially with SMD components (with proper fixtures) and should yield more repeatable results.
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Giallograle:
BNC sockets for the FE-500 look really useful.
The East Tester 3501 is on AliXpress at around $900 , so the TH2830 looks like better value, and I see Mawyatt has written some software to generate curves on a pc from the 2830.
Question is, when are those enhancements, or the 34 frequencies of the 2830 over the 6 of the old Agilent unit, likely to prove useful?
mawyatt:
--- Quote from: Giallograle on October 24, 2024, 03:59:16 pm ---BNC sockets for the FE-500 look really useful.
The East Tester 3501 is on AliXpress at around $900 , so the TH2830 looks like better value, and I see Mawyatt has written some software to generate curves on a pc from the 2830.
Question is, when are those enhancements, or the 34 frequencies of the 2830 over the 6 of the old Agilent unit, likely to prove useful?
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Our TH2830 has increments of at least 1Hz from 50Hz to 100KHz, well even better see below :-+
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KungFuJosh:
The accuracy and reliability of the TH2830 is excellent. Mine was improved to ST2832, and it was excellent across the board. The newer SourceTronic firmware had some improvements for both models including the frequency stepping across the board instead of a few fixed frequencies that it was limited to previously.
Giallograle:
@KungFuJosh
--- Quote ---Mine was improved to ST2832
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Were you able to load the ST2832 software onto the TH2830?
Ok so my question is... in practise, accurately characterising devices, parasitics and matching - the graphs are very nice but will the extra functionality let me do, or do more quickly/easily, things which the Agilent - 0.1% accuracy, 6 frequencies to 100kHz, and a number of different device models - cannot?
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