freq counter?

[Robert Donker]

Yes and no, Its easier to get a determination of the period, however the
accuracy is poor, imagine determining length of a mile by replicating one
foot over and over, if the foot is off by a tiny amount the error prorates
over the entire measurement. Now having a length of 10000 miles and dividing
by 10000, you get a much more accurate measure. That's why accurate freq.
counters work this way. Does that make sense?
-RPD

-----Original Message-----
From: jdec at mindspring.com [mailto:jdec at mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 10:33 AM
To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
Subject: Re: freq counter?


This discussion reminds me of some advice a wise
technician told me in college.  He stated that when
you are trying to measure the frequency of a waveform
with a meter it's MORE accurate to have it measure the
period (which you would then have to manually divide
into 1 to get frequency) than the direct frequency.

Was he telling truth????

Cheers,

Jeff R. Dec