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| Speaking of telephony experience, I just used a kick meter to estimate the amou… | |
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| @mattblaze lol, i just use the ft marks on the wire…. | |
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| @ogg That works, if you know the starting number when the box was new... | |
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| "What's a kick meter?", you ask?"Kick meter" is the com… | |
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| ... In addition to a switch to measure Volts or Ohms and a resistance zero pot,… | |
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| ... If there's any capacitance on the input, what the ohm meter was actuall… | |
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| ... a long twisted pair cable (such as a phone local loop or Ethernet cable) bu… | |
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| ... well before the invention of the TDR, this method was how the phone company… | |
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| @mattblaze Won't a twisted pair also have an inductance? Does that affect … | |
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| @skydog It does, but the capacitance dominates. | |
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| @mattblaze what, no pictures? | |
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| @d_a_keldsen Needs a video, really. Maybe later. | |
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| @mattblaze Now I have to ask: you'd have to "calibrate" that for … | |
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| @cm There are differences, but they're smaller than the measurement error w… | |
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| For the record (see thread): still works, though the original battery (manufact… | |
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| @mattblaze Remind me, how much distance per point? | |
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| @oclsc 480 feet | |
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| @mattblaze45V or 4.5V?? | |
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| @ckd 45V | |
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| @mattblaze Hmm. Not the right scale for my kinda use. Tempting to roll my own, … | |
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| @oclsc the Tempo Sidekick (the more modern version) has a scale where 1pt is 50… | |
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| @mattblaze This is slightly inaccurate: The line also contains inductance (it c… | |
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| @robryk The inductance is tiny compared with the capacitance here. | |
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| @mattblaze The only way I can think of comparing the two (comparing impedance) … | |
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| @robryk perhaps you misunderstand the measurement technique here. You hook up a… | |
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| @mattblaze Sure. So at a very crude approximation, the circuit we have is a ser… | |
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| @robryk I'm really not interested in debating transmission line theory with… | |
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| @mattblaze In that case would you mind measuring (or reading off its documentat… | |
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| @robryk Analog Ohm meters always have a pot you adjust to zero the meter before… | |
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| @robryk E.g., you can use the RC time constant to calculate how long the meter … |