Phil,
Yes, those capacitors are getting more and more difficult to read. My
solution is a small lighted handheld magnifier. I think it was designed
for reading - look in your local drugstore. As I recall, I found it at
Walmart.
Just plain magnification is not enough - the lighting helps immensely
73,
Don W3FPR
On 1/18/2014 1:07 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:
Also, while we are on the kit-building theme I have a problem with small parts
such as small capacitors. I know this is not a problem with the SMT kits like
the K3 or KX3 and so on but I remember when I did the 80/30 option for my KX1
there were several capacitors and none of my methods would work to read the
printing on these things. I have several good magnifying glasses, a magnifying
lamp, and so on. I could not read them at all. I had to grab my Fluke DVM and
use that to measure the capacitance to determine which was which.
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