[Elecraft] Another K2 Capacitor Question....

[Don Wilhelm]

Jonathan,
The ARRL Handbook has a digital capacitance meter adapter that is rather
easy to build - use a DVM to display the values (yes, you can use a regular
DMM).  Sorry, but I don't recall the section - you will have to use the
index to find it.

I have built both the capacitance meter and the inductance meter and can say
that they work FB.  Mine is in a single box with a dedicated DVM but that
takes a many pole switch to switch from capacitance to inductance - the
easier way is to build 2 separate adapters.
73,
Don W3FPR
Don Wilhelm  - Wake Forest, NC   W3FPR home page: http://www.qsl.net/w3fpr/
  QRP-L # 485   K2  SN 0020   mailto: w3fpr@arrl.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD" <K1RFD@K1RFD.com>

> All of this discussion makes me think it would be great to have a
> capacitance meter on the bench, yet this is something most hams probably
> don't have.
>
> Has anyone seen a simple circuit which would allow capacitor values to be
> checked using, say, a signal source, an RF probe, and a DMM?  In other
> words, a "capacitance probe"?
>