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Power Meter Calibration and Comparison

Bah.  Dang thing showed up with no cable to interface between the meter and sensor.  $75 for one from scientech.  It's a basic mini din though.

I talked with the guys at scientech and they said I could purchase the parts from radio shack and probably make one. I'm scared though that the wires swap over so that like pin 1 doesn't connect to pin 1 on the other side but instead goes to pin 5 or whatever. would suck to kill it.
 

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Ken,
  you can turn on the meter and probe the connector for the +- 8 volts to at
least see if the drawing matches the meter's connector. ;)
 
Yeah but I havn't been able to find that connector at radio shack. I am pretty sure from talking with them that it would be a simple 1 to 1 connection but I need to find that plug first.
 
I found a male connector in my stock... I think this is what you may be looking
for..  :-?
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I don't have a female. :'(
 
Nope it's pretty proprietary.  I'll take a picture of it. I've even looked at the apple serial and it's different too.
 

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IMHO...

If your connector is a female then the connector i found fits into it...

Look at both of them them closely Ken... remember M & F are mirror images

2 pins on the 1st row
3 pins on the 2nd row oddly spaced
3 pins on the 3rd row evenly spaced

Jerry
 
so it is.  now I'm curious if the apple cable is good enough with the same configuration.
/me goes to google....

Yup that connection appears to be the same. However it's still not fur sure that it's 1 to 1.. etc on the meter connection.
 
well anyway, I've eaten up enough off topic on this thread... LOL How's scopeguy doing on the readings? I think I need to put the link to the spreadsheet in my favorites so I don't have to go looking for it all the time.
 
Kenom said:
well anyway, I've eaten up enough off topic on this thread... LOL  How's scopeguy doing on the readings?  I think I need to put the link to the spreadsheet in my favorites so I don't have to go looking for it all the time.
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ScopeGuy20 has got his report in the spread sheet.

Peace,
dave
 
Interesting that the red in his readings is so much off from what yours and mine was daguin. Yet at the same time, the bluray is right on... Scopeguy, did you have any timeframe between the measurements??
 
Kenom said:
Nope it's pretty proprietary.  I'll take a picture of it.  I've even looked at the apple serial and it's different too.
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Hey Ken,

What exactly are you looking for? A cable with a male and female plug at either end? If so let me know I found one for my meter that is like yours.

I have been in contact with ScopeGuy20 and it look like we will meet this weekend.
 
hydro said:
[quote author=Kenom link=1217029972/520#533 date=1224114087]Nope it's pretty proprietary.  I'll take a picture of it.  I've even looked at the apple serial and it's different too.
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Hey Ken,

What exactly are you looking for?  A cable with a male and female plug at either end?  If so let me know I found one for my meter that is like yours.  

I have been in contact with ScopeGuy20 and it look like we will meet this weekend.  

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Well you've got the same meter I've got and you can see that it's got a female on the back of the meter. Since the sensor has a female on the side I need a male to male cable. But if your cable came with your meter then it's pretty safe to assume that the cable was designed for the meter (I hope). I can't imagine why they would have both male and female on both sides. The only thing I need to determine is if the pins go to the same pins on both sides of the cable. Ie.. pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2, pin 3 to pin 3...etc...
 
so those cables aren't the originals from scientech. Hmm ok. I'll have to specifically ask the folks at scientech to see if the cables are the same.
 
That's called an S-Video plug where I live. The plugs on an S-Video cable are male.
 
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