<x-flowed>Have you tried using a jumper wire to short out the input jacks? I find the
quality of probes varies greatly...
Do you get the correct resistance values with the two test resistors? 86R
and some other resistor...
John :-#)#
At 08:44 AM 1/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I finally built my ESR meter kit from John and it "works" (it powers up,
>displays "EA" and then "- ") but when the measurement leads are tied
>together in order to zero them out the value just keeps fluctuating wildly.
>The fluctuation is large and happens a few times a second. If I press the
>button to zero them out it turns the meter off. I'm doing this with the
>ends of the wires off the PCB (the PCB has not been installed in the case
>yet) clamped together. Any ideas?
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