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Errata Title & Document Type: HP Journal - "A Wide-Ranging, Automatic LCR Meter..." Manual Part Number: Volume 29, No. 4 Revision Date: December 1977 HP References in this Manual This manual may contain references to HP or Hewlett-Packard. Please note that Hewlett- Packard's former test and measurement, semiconductor products and chemical analysis businesses are now part of Agilent Technologies. We have made no changes to this manual copy. The HP XXXX referred to in this document is now the Agilent XXXX. For example, model number HP8648A is now model number Agilent 8648A. About this Manual We've added this manual to the Agilent website in an effort to help you support your product. This manual provides the best information we could find. It may be incomplete or contain dated information, and the scan quality may not be ideal. If we find a better copy in the future, we will add it to the Agilent website. Support for Your Product Agilent no longer sells or supports this product. You will find any other available product information on the Agilent Test & Measurement website: www.tm.agilent.com Search for the model number of this product, and the resulting product page will guide you to any available information. Our service centers may be able to perform calibration if no repair parts are needed, but no other support from Agilent is available. Microprocessor control broadens the capabilities of this speedy LCR meter and makes it readily adaptable to BCD or HP-IB automatic systems. by Masahiro Yokokawa and Keiki Kanafuji F OR AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT to meet perfor- quency, and connect the component to the test termi- mance goals, the values of the components used nals. The instrument automatically switches to the in assembling the circuit must fall within certain correct measurement range, selects the preferred cir- ranges, some wide, some narrow. Despite increasing cuit mode, and presents results on the 31/2digit dis- sophistication in the design and manufacture of pas- plays in about 250 ms without any time-consuming sive circuit components, differences between sup- balancing adjustments. The user, however, can have posedly identical components do exist and the ranges full manual cont:rol of the instrument at any time of values encountered often exceed acceptable limits. simply by pressing the appropriate front-panel Thus, most electronic laboratories, quality-control pushbuttons. labs, and receiving departments are equipped to mea- The front-panel[ control arrangement is similar to sure the actual values of the components with which manually controlJled instruments (see Fig. 1) speed- they are concerned, a process that is not only time ing familiarizatio][l with the instrument. As a further consuming, but one that oft