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A 4-in-1 bench equipment… a very very heavy jack of all trades and master of none?
Tag: Frequency Counter
Thandar TF820
Black Star Apollo 100 frequency counter
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I saw this old Apollo 100 Universal Counter Timer. However, the B channel does not work apparently. This is clearly a fairly common issue, as another chap was also looking for a solution and/or service manual, Black Star Apollo Frequency Counter, back in 2014.
This is probably due to the reduced input of channel B and blown input stage (front end)
Build your own frequency meter ATtiny2313
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Following on from Frequency Abacuses, from Re: Ten Dollar Frequency Counter’s – Thread #2, there is a link, Schaltungsbeschreibung ‘reziproker Frequenzzähler 0,0025Hz-50MHz’, to building your own frequency meter:
Do any of these come with a simple serial port output of the reading? With let’s say a 1 per second dump at 9600 baud?
That would be immensely more useful than a display, really.Are you able to programm an ATtiny2313? If yes you can use ‘fmeter20.zip’ to get a frequency counter 0,005 Hz – 1 MHz (up to 200 MHz with prescaler). With 20 MHz Xtal baudrate is 38400. The LCD is not necessary at all.
http://mino-elektronik.de/fmeter/fmeter.htmYou can find another low frequency counter using Arduino UNO board with serial data output. First version 0,016 Hz – 250 kHz and 2. version with internal prescaler up to 7 MHz: http://mino-elektronik.de/fmeter/fm_software.htm#bsp7
A simple 5-digit counter is shown here: http://mino-elektronik.de/fmeter/fm_software.htm#bsp13
Sorry for german description.
Below is the German translation… and the ATtiny2313 version is at the bottom of the page.
