[HBR] Coil Q and the Boonton 260

[Brian Burns]

Hello Peter,

~ I would not recommend buying any vintage Q Meter that uses a
thermocouple....

~ The Heath QM-1 Q Meters are fairly cheap,  but they are limited to
measuring Q's of 250 on the 1X scale.  For comparative tests, they are
probably quite usable for the coil forms used in the HBR series.

~ Peter  K1ZJH

So come on guys! Help me buy myself a Christmas present! A bag of parts
doesn't count---it has to be wrapped and put under the tree as a "thing". My
XYL isn't going to know what it's for, in any case, but it needs to be
recognizable as a "thing". 

I'm a sucker for test equipment, and would buy one of AADE's Mark IIB L/C
meters, but he is closed up with some sort of serious illness. Anybody got
one to sell?

I looked up the specs on the QM-1, and it does have a 2X scale. I don't
suppose it's very likely that we will be winding coils with Q's much higher
than 250 anyway. 

In my Spanish guitar making, I test Q's of wood parts at audio frequencies,
as a measure of their damping properties. So many things affect these
numbers that I only use them as comparative quality measurements. I would
imagine that the same would apply to electronic components.

Cheers,

Brian  





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