As title says; a simple capacitance meter.
One youtube video by VK3YE was enough to get me started building, after all, the meter that I was using before was not behaving correctly (latter found the problem).
The outcome was this:
(scale on the left switch is wrongly printed, where is x2 should be x0.5/divide by 2)During build:Making the scale:
The scale on the meter was changed from the original 0-50 to 0-100, the easiest way was to scan the original face-place and then edit on a image editor.
To calibrate I used a 68pF and 27pF capacitor, the idea was not to have highest precision possible only to be in a position of having certain about unmarked capacitors.
Some description/schematic from here and here:
I used different Ge diodes and the 10K pot was changed for 2 of 5K in series to give better adjustment range. The Zener was changed to 6.8v.
Ranges like this:
E: 100pF
D: 1nF
C: 10nF
B: 100nF
A: 1uF
Have a nice day!
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