[sdiy] How much DMM accuracy do you need?

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

I go sillyscope for course freq and a guitar tuner or by ear (providing I
have a reference osc) for fine tuning. Getting instrumentation that could
measure stuff as good as you want it is going to cost a lot.

Jay S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Justin Owen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:08 AM
> To: cheater cheater; synth-diy
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] How much DMM accuracy do you need?
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cheater cheater [cheater00 at gmail.com]
>
> >OK. How much accuracy do you *really* need there?
>
> IMHO "need" is a relative term. I managed to build my first few
> synths with no more test kit than a £5 logic probe and a £3 DMM
> (which has since been replaced - but still gets used).
>
> The next few builds *needed* an oscilloscope - so I bought a 2nd
> hand 20Mhz dual trace scope. I couldn't get by without it now and
> I'm looking at buying a second, better, 4 trace scope.
>
> For my current project - there's no way I could complete it
> properly without a dedicated frequency counter.
>
> Perhaps this is more of an observation than an answer... :)
>
> Justin
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