Re: [volt-nuts] Best way to measure micro Ohms

2017-09-19 Thread Charles Steinmetz
David wrote: A practical problem is the tools available to me. The U-channel was machined by someone in my radio club, and the rest I made myself using nothing more than a drill and hand tools. It would be nice to make more out of one piece, but it would require better tools than I have readily

Re: [volt-nuts] Best way to measure micro Ohms

2017-09-19 Thread Charles Steinmetz
David wrote: Thanks. You have confirmed what I was thinking - it is *probably* the oxide causing the problem. It's not a waveguide in the normal sense of the word, transmitting a TE or TM wave down a hollow tube, but more like a coaxial line transmitting something close(ish) to a TEM wave.

Re: [volt-nuts] Best way to measure micro Ohms

2017-09-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 18 September 2017 at 23:28, george wrote: > The reason that DC is used commercially to measure resistance is simple, > if you use AC you may well get the reactive component as well as the > resistance coming into play. > That may not be an an issue with a dual-phase