[Test-Equipment] Tek Model 130 LC Meter

[Dennis Wade]

Thank you all for the responses.  One more question:

Is the unit useful without the calibrator?

Pete:  Price and shipping to 95821?

Sandy:  Shipping to 95821?

      You may reply direct to sacramento.cyclist at gmail.com

      Thank you,

           Dennis


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:27 PM, k4pf at juno.com <k4pf at juno.com> wrote:

>
> > Denis Wade wrote
> > I only recently learned of the existence of this device...I had no idea
> Tek made an LC meter. <snip>
> > just how useful is this one as a general purpose LC
> meter on my bench, aside from the "way cool" factor.
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't have a Tek 130, but the instrument is mentioned
> in Alan Douglas' book "Tube Testers and Classic Electronic
> Test Gear."  Here's the quote:
>
> Direct-reading capacitance or inductance meters were rare
> in the days before transistors.  The only model I'm aware of
> is the Tektronix 130.  Besides being cute, these actually work.
> The component goes into a 140KHz oscillator and the meter
> measures the frequency shift with full scale ranges
> of 3, 10, 30, 100 and 300 pF or uH.  One caveat:
> all the striped black paper capacitors will be leaky
> and must be replaced before trying to recalibrate this instrument.
>
> unquote
>
> If you do replace the "Black Beauty" capacitors,
> you should use electronic silver solder, to avoid damage
> to the ceramic terminal strips used by Tektronix.
> The Kester product is 2% Silver, 62% Tin, 36% Lead.
>
> 73,
> Ed Knobloch
>
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Dennis L. Wade
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Carmichael, CA