At 10:06 PM 5/30/01 -0500, James R Albers wrote:
>Hello Andy,
>
>I connect the unknown inductor across a known capacitor.  Then I take my
>dip meter and dip the parallel LC circuit that I have made.  Then I read
>the frequency off of my dip meter, and plug this number into the standard
>formula for resonance.  This only works well up to about 150 MHz.
>
>Of course, if you're an engineer, you'll want to use a computer model.

I don't know about that, I have and use, a heathkit dip meter. :)
Models are fine, as long as you don't expect detailed accuracy in the real
world.
Too often, little details aren't in the model..


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