The 5386 is the really good counter in that genre. I worked closely with its designer at the time. Its prescaler is much better than the other models mentioned.
Rick Karlquist N6RK Magnus Danielson wrote: > Dear Rob, > > On 01/18/2012 11:45 AM, Rob Kimberley wrote: >> I've seen one of these advertised, and wanted to know if any fellow Nuts >> had >> any experience. > > We have one at work, which we got as extra goodies when buying another > instrument. It's a very basic counter which may be useful as such, but > not very spectacular. Just the other day I adviced a colleague to use a > HP5335A instead of the HP5384A for measurement work. It's like a 3 1/2 > digit DMM, they are good to know where you are, but if you want to do > more qualitative measures, you sure want a better counter for that work. > > I still like my HP5335A despite having much more precise counters at > hand. Having the C channel input, it beats the HP5384A in every aspect > except size and weight. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
