I built myself an ‘instant read’ ohmmeter (because, seriously, why do multimeters take seconds to settle‽) a few year ago after buying a huge lot of used-to-be-sorted-40-years-ago-but-succumbed-to-entropy through hole resistors at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market a few years ago. Works great!
https://www.blog.montgomerie.net/posts/2023-08-30-instant-resistor-measurer/ Jamie. > On Nov 5, 2025, at 1:28 PM, Tom Katt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 1:48:40 PM UTC-5 Mac Doktor wrote: > Get your hands on one of these: > > https://jyetech.com/m162-10-lcr-meter/ > > The case is tricky to put together. They also have a modular version of the > same thing. The contacts are on a separate (much cheaper) board and could > easily be connected to your $20 Harbor Freight DMM. > > I got a pair of smart tweezers that work great for quick measurements of > small parts like a pile of random resistors (Shannon ST42 > <https://shannontweezers.top/docs/introduction/> that I lucked into from > following an Eevblog forum)... They ended up being a lot more useful than I > expected I bought them for around $80 when they first came out, now they're > over $200 (thanks tariffs!). I highly recommend smart tweezer style meters > if you can find one at a reasonable price - one handed measurements and they > automatically determine the components. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/79a6b909-95b2-498b-be59-c8134611d08en%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/79a6b909-95b2-498b-be59-c8134611d08en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2141EF4D-2C76-4078-8185-DB6D13CC0D74%40montgomerie.net.
