who makes frequency counters?

[John Larkin]

I'm looking for a couple of pretty good universal counters. This is
nice,

http://www.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536902438.536880943/pd.html

but a tad expensive, especially if you get a decent timebase.

Who else makes counters these days? Any comments?

And it looks like Fluke is finally back into the benchtop DVM
business. Anybody tried this one? I wonder if it's as good as the
Keithley 2000.

http://us.fluke.com/usen/products/8845A+8846A.htm


John

 

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I'm looking for a couple of pretty good universal counters. This is
nice,

http://www.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536902438.536880943/pd.html

but a tad expensive, especially if you get a decent timebase.

Who else makes counters these days? Any comments?

And it looks like Fluke is finally back into the benchtop DVM
business. Anybody tried this one? I wonder if it's as good as the
Keithley 2000.

http://us.fluke.com/usen/products/8845A+8846A.htm


John

If there is one thing you can get used on ebay or the flea market, it
is a frequency counter. The only drawback is size. Newer means compact.
I don't believe there have been any real advances in counters over the
years. It is a very basic task.

 

[David L. Jones]

I'm looking for a couple of pretty good universal counters. This is
nice,

http://www.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536902438.536880943/pd.html

but a tad expensive, especially if you get a decent timebase.

Who else makes counters these days? Any comments?

And it looks like Fluke is finally back into the benchtop DVM
business. Anybody tried this one? I wonder if it's as good as the
Keithley 2000.

http://us.fluke.com/usen/products/8845A+8846A.htm


John

SRS make a good one, but not at the cheap end:
http://www.thinksrs.com/products/SR620.htm
The Rubidium version is flightfully expensive. It's actually much
cheaper to get the SR620 & a seperate Rudibium standard than it is to
get the SR625.

I'm running that HP one with an SR725 SRS Rubidium standard at the
moment, very nice combination. The HP GPIB Excel software plug-in is a
bit buggy, but great for automated measurements straight into Excel
without mucking around.

Dave

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

I'm looking for a couple of pretty good universal counters. This is
nice,

http://www.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536902438.536880943/pd.html

but a tad expensive, especially if you get a decent timebase.

Who else makes counters these days? Any comments?

Do you have an in house frequency standard, and Distribution
Amplifier? I built a 1 in, 32 out DA for Microdyne for our GPS derived
10 MHz standard. I used National LH0002, but only because I had a card
cage with eight boards with four chips per board. It made accurate
measurements a lot easier when all the equipment that used an external
reference were locked together. National (and others) have modern SMD
buffer amps that would do a great job. If you look at the price of
commercial DAs, you might want to add one to your product line.


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Harry Dellamano]

I'm looking for a couple of pretty good universal counters. This is
nice,

http://www.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536902438.536880943/pd.html

but a tad expensive, especially if you get a decent timebase.

Who else makes counters these days? Any comments?

And it looks like Fluke is finally back into the benchtop DVM
business. Anybody tried this one? I wonder if it's as good as the
Keithley 2000.

http://us.fluke.com/usen/products/8845A+8846A.htm


John

John is doing his year end equipment buying with company profits to get it
on this year's tax. This is a slow week for business so great for buying
equipment and reducing net income.
Enjoy
Harry