Hi all; They came in today, with zero assembly instructions, but there wasn't a very long list of things to do.
1. Strip all the craft paper off both sides of the plastic precut box parts. 2. Find some fresh 9 volt batteries, I had two for 2 kits. 3. Figure out how it mounts on the back panel and use the 4 shorter bolts, 4 tubular nylon standoffs and nuts to mount it, pull the battery connector out from under the back of it and attach it to a battery. 4. Arrange the 4 side/end parts, placing the side with the cutaway so it matches the zif sockets lever when its closed, and fasten the top/front panel on with the 4 longer screws and nuts. 5. Find a capacitor and form its leads to fit the zif socket, plug it in and close the socket. One could plug test leads, not supplied, into the zip socket, in which case the leads ohmage will also be displayed added to the DUT's results I assume. 6. Press the button switch. It will say testing for a few seconds as it displays the battery voltage to 3 digits + decimal, then report the ESR in xx.xx ohms format, % of power lost, and the microfarads of the capacitor, in my case nominally .32 ohms for the ESR, about a 1.5% power loss, and 2389 uf for a cap I've had for a couple years marked 2200uf. And it will shut itself off in 30 some seconds to go easy on the battery. 7. Wipe silly grin off face, it works1 One of them had broken the teeny little plastic tab that secures the lcd to the green backlighting panel, but a teeny drop of Go2/goop fixed that right up. There are some holes and cut slots in the back where it looks like one might be able to cobble up some sort of a clamp to keep the battery restrained, but w/o any instructions my imagination wasn't working well enough to decipher that puzzle. Also a square hole in one of the side panels where leads soldered to the board could exit from. But for about 30 bucks delivered for 2 of them, I believe I got my money's worth. Its supposed to be able to identify whatever, maximum of 3 leads, it is that you plug into the zif socket but I've not tested that yet. So diodes, transistors, maybe even inductances can be measured. I'll find out in the next days. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
