A capacitance meter built from discrete ICs
2000-04-11 23:58 by Ian
Not much to say about this one. It was a project that I saw in an issue of Popular Electronics before it became Poptronics. It is a capacitance meter built from discrete ICs. It creates an RC oscillator and counts the number of wave-fronts over a given period of time to arrive at a value for the unknown capacitance.
Unit face:
Top of the PCB:
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