Electronics Forum / Equipment / November 2003

A good while back I remember reading an article that referred to a
particular Fluke multimeter as a "standard, common, good all round
MM".  I don't remember which is was.
I need one for general hobbiest use, but would like to get a nice one

I am in a village surrounded by hills. I am waiting for a land line
connections for past 4 years. They have to lay cable for 4 Kms so they
don't provide me connection. cellulor phone operation also in the out
of reach.  Now I decided to not wait furhter. I am planning to get a

Good Day All,
I am trying to use a TI ucc3977 CCFL driver chip and I'm having
problems getting the output to go low enough.
I am using components removed from their evaluation pcb, so I am sure

Is there any chemical substance capable of completely dissolving
epoxy glass, 1.6 mm thick, but not dissolving at all the 35 uM
copper that coats it? (it's a photoetched printed circuit board)
I'm trying to find a cheap way for making stencils.

We are a Bulgarian engineering company offering innovative custom
prototyping services for electronic surveillance related projects. We offer
a completely closed and confidential cycle of production from the initial
idea phase, to prototyping, to mass production. We specialize in ...

Wanted dead or alive:  1 GHZ Prescaler Module for a
Philips Frequency Counter Model PM6668.
THANKS!
db

I have three speaker wires running just behind sheetrock along a wall in my
house that have breaks in them somewhere (I believe from the contractor
firing nails through the wires when putting up the sheetrock). Two of the
wires are shorted from one end (wall terminal) and open from ...

I'm looking for a miniature (i.e. .5"=.75" diameter) rotary switch --
4-pole, 6-position, non-shorting.  Anyone know who might carry such an item?
Thanks.
Joe

For sale/offer as lab clearout impending:
'Bitcsope' analogue/digital oscilloscope/logic analyser/signal capture
system.
http://www.bitscope.com/

I have this chip:  N87C51RB1  can I copy it ? does it have a
protection ?
I have an emp-30 and I can find it in the listing but when I read it
it gives me a false reading.

Im designing Jitter Measurer for 2Mbit (HDB3) signal.
Input signal must be decoded from HDB3 to recover clock signal.
Is there any easy (or little bit hard) way to decode it (with error
correction)????

I'm looking for an electrical line stretcher (or electrical delay line).
Frequency will be near 10MHz to <1GHz.
And 5 ns electrical delay will be very fine to me.
If you know any company, please leave a message for me.

I am looking for an USB (or serial) interface and program which will
allow me to do the following.
I need to create a 3 volt pulse at a variable rate of between 50 and
400 pulses per second.

I can't seem to find this information anywhere.
What are the differences in the series of the Simpson Model 260 VOMs? I have
seen series 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, etc.
Thanks.

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