[Elecraft] Another K2 Capacitor Question....

[Paul Hendershott]

I picked up an "L/C Meter IIB" from "Almost All Digital Electronics" for around
$99 before I started on my K2. It cleared up a lot of confusion I had between
the difficult to read parts. I found it to be extremely accurate. The great
thing is that it comes in a "kit" form or factory assembled! Nothing like
building "kit test equipment" to build your  K1 or K2 kit - very much in the
Heathkit spirit of doing things.

Only thing to watch out for - I was told by a few builders not to rely on it too
much when measuring the toroids - trust the manual and the proper # of turns,
etc.,. There were discrepancies between the measured L and what the manual
stated the L should be, but my K2 worked FB following the instructions exactly.

Paul        KB9YVP


"Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD" wrote:

> 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"?