[sdiy] How could I have missed a frequency counter in my own lab!

[Dave Krooshof]

>Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>Yesterday while fiddling with my 4069 VCO stuff, I
>just noticed a button on my Fluke 8060a DMM that says
>'Hz'...  !!!!  I've had this thing for YEARS.
:-)


>I no longer have the manual for this DMM, do any of you
>know what the range of accuracy is for this meter?
It's probably pretty accurate, as it wil just sit and wait
for a fixed period of time, while counting peaks.
So the higher your freq, the more accurate it gets.
(remember hearing pitch is logarithmic, so 1 hertz off @ 2000 Hz
won't bother you too much, while at 50Hz.......)
It won't be to accurate on changing (natural) pitches.

>I don't know the specs, but it works good down to about 20Hz,
>which was important to me. It switches to 'period mode' at the
>low frequencies so it still has a good update time.
Voila. Even a solution for the bass.

Lucky you.
My freq counter only counts on a .5 second time base, and it's not
exectly portable with 19", 3 HE units high and slightly under 20Kgrams.
But it has beautiful glowing tube display (which is my major reason to
count freqs :-)

Dave