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Contents
- How to Build and Use Test Gear: Give That Professional Look to Your Home Brew Equipment. Handy Dandy Soldering Iron Cooler Offer Cordless Iron Tips The Solder Master The Third Hand How to Become a Troubleshooting Wizard A Look at Soviet Test Gear
- Cheap-N-Easy Handy-Dandy Testers: A Free Test Lab World's Smallest Continuity Tester Photo Electric Bench Accessory El Cheapo Signal Tracer Test Instrument Saver The Violet and Other Houseplants Tester A $ 1 Strip Chart Recorder Build the Test Anything Tester
- Voltmeters and Ammeters: Build a Simplified, Sensitive Millivoltmeter A Battery Voltage Monitor The Easy Ammeter Adding An Ammeter to Your Car Simple Remote Ammeter Using a Bus-Bar Shunt Find That Meter Resistance with This Simple Bridge
- Capacitance Meters: Build a Simple Capacitance Meter Build This Digital Capacity Meter How Many pF Is That Capacitor, Really? A Digital Capacity Meter Simple Construction Project Adrift Over Your Cs? The Capacitor Comparator Computerized Capacity Meter Reincarnating Old Test Equipment 1
- Resistance and Impedance Measurers: Build This Lab Type Bridge and Measure Transformer Impedances 1 A Simple RC Substitution Box Using a Matrix 1 Megger for Peanuts 1
- Testers for Solid-State Components: Ultra Simple Diode Checker The Amazing Zener Sweeper Tests Zoner Diodes Presto Transistor Checker from VOM Test Those ICs How to Find a Forgetful Computer Memory Build the IC Experimenter To Get Started With TTL And CMOS1
- Digital Voltmeters: DVMs Get Simpler and Simpler Build a 3 1/2 Digit DVM Super DVM with LCD Ecstasy In Multimeter-land with an Autoranging Marvel
- Calibrators and Frequency Standards: Inexpensive HF- VHF Frequency Standard The World's Cheapest Calibrator Even Works On 2M All Band Frequency Marker A Synthesized IC Frequency Standard Ultra-Flexible Crystal Calibrator Super Standard Goes Right Down to 1 Hz You Already Have an Atomic Frequency Standard Instant Counter Calibration Using Your Í V Set A 15.75 kHz Oscillator Simple TV Test Unit
- Signal Generators: Brew Up a Signal Generator Updated Universal Frequency Generator Is It the Band or My Receiver? Tubeless Partability for the Heath Signal Generator VLF-ULF Generator 2 Build an FM Signal Generator FM Alignment Oscillator SSTV Test Generator Master Sync Generator Digital Signal Source Bargain Audio Frequency Source The Audio Synthesizer for RTTY, SSTV and Whatever Build an Amazing Function Generator Build this Simple Noise Generator Frequency Counters Selecting
- Frequency Counters: A Fun Counter Project A $50 Self-Powered Counter The Calculating Counter An Inexpensive Modularized 50 MHz Counter 300 MHz Frequency Scaler Increased Speed for the k20AW Frequency Counter IC Audio Frequency Meter The Speedy Audio Counter How Accurate Is Your Counter? An Incredible Counter Calibrator
- Oscilloscopes: Build an Engine Analyzer Your 'Scope Can Be Improved Eight Trace Scope Adapter Superprobe The Audible Probe Is Safer to Use Mod for the Heath 10-102 Scope
- RF Test Equipment: The Benefits of Sidetone Monitoring Design Your Own QRP Dummy Load Home-Canned Dummy Instant SWR Ridge UHF SWR Indicator Simple VHF Monitor VHF Noise Snooper RF and Modulation Monitor Build a Simple Field-Strength Meter with Class
- Bench and Lab Supplies: Surprisingly Low-Cost Lab Supply Adjustable Bench Supply Super Low Voltage Power Supply Easy, Quick, and Inexpensive Variable DC Supply Super Low Voltage Power Supply Unique Power Supply Tester
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Preface
At this very moment, the junk box in your workshop is hoarding valuable items just waiting to be put to work.
All of the 99 test equipment projects explained in- this guide can be made from various items in your junk box. Even if you would have to purchase a few necessary parts, most of the gear can be built for less than $10. How's that for beating inflation? The first section starts you off on the right foot by explaining how to build and use test gear. After reading the section, you'll become a trouble shooting wizard! Your home-brew equipment will quickly gain the look of professionalism.
All these projects are cheap and easy. Why not get started right away building such equipment as soldering iron controllers frequency counters, oscilloscopes, voltmeters, ammeters, capacitance meters, calibrators and all types of bench and lab power supplies.
Whether you are an experimenter, hobbyist, ham radio operator or just like to tinker with electronics enjoy all these projects. And they are, indeed, junk box projects you can be proud of.
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Also see: Building Power Supplies (1991; Radio Shack press)