Re: Pickup Coil Construction for Inductor Measuremenfs
I hope this is not a silly question, but where do you need GDO, if you have a VNA? That is, you can measure coils and capacitors with VNA. Measuring resonance frequency is bit harder, because Q gets
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Leif M
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#33335
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Re: Pickup Coil Construction for Inductor Measuremenfs
Hi Bob If you look at /g/nanovna-users/message/33324 you will see a picture of a pickup coil I made. It's 5 turns of 0.9mm enamelled copper wire on a 20mm diameter PVC former. This
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Mike
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#33334
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Re: S11 ? if Zc complexe
Telecommunications engineers who work with transmission lines (telephone cable pairs) that exhibit complex characteristic impedances (Zo) generally use return loss and reflection loss to characterize
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Maynard Wright, P. E., W6PAP
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#33333
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Pickup Coil Construction for Inductor Measuremenfs
There have been references to pickup coils to use the Nanovna as a GDO. Since I have zero experience with a GDO and have a need to measure some inductors, could someone provide some specifics on
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Bob AF9W
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#33332
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Re: Connecting NanoVNA, antenna, and manual tuner
Using a smith chart VNA with a manual antenna will be an eye opening experience. You will never want to go back to the hunt and peck method of the three controls. Lester B Veenstra K1YCM M?YCM W8YCM
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Lester Veenstra
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Re: Connecting NanoVNA, antenna, and manual tuner
Steven, [Transceiver], [Tuner], [Antenna] = [Nano], [Tuner], [Antenna] Set up if you wish to use your tuner to "adjust" your antenna resonant point with your Nano. David Reed, ac0yw
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david.reed346@...
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#33330
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Connecting NanoVNA, antenna, and manual tuner
Hello all, I would like to connect my NanoVNA, antenna and manual tuner (MFJ-969). I can connect the nano and antenna but am not sure how to bring in the tuner. An example of what I am trying to do
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Steven KC3DOW
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#33329
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Re: Inductor model
I moved the coil away until the frequency of the dip remained steady then moved a bit further. The vertical scale is 0.01dB/div so the dip is perhaps not as large as it seems. -- Mike?
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Mike
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Re: NanoVNA with bigger screen
Pedro, You write "I have a nanoVNA S-A-A-2 which is useless because it doesn't measure Rs orXs independently in S21 mode, only measures impedance complex." Recent firmwares from DisLord provide what
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F6EGK - Jean-Roger
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Re: Inductor model
Looking better but you still have a large dip. Keep moving further apart until you can barely see it and record the dip frequency as you go. Roger
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Roger Need
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Re: Inductor model
I'd think somewhere between 18.082620 and 18.085096, because that's where the imaginary part goes through zero.
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Jim Lux
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#33325
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Re: Inductor model
Roger I made a new sending coil and it works a lot better now. -- Mike
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Mike
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Re: Inductor model
Roger always has good ideas. Attached is the measurement (via nanovna-saver) of a trape and I will then explain to you how the measurement is made. When I read S11 Return loss I say it resonates at
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Fran?ois
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Re: Inductor model
Mike, You are way too close to the coil being tested. The inductance of your coil is affected by the proximity of another coil and this affects the SRF measurement. Once you have a dip on the NanoVNA
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Roger Need
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Re: NanoVNA with bigger screen
Nanovna-F has 4.3 inch IPS screen and is much more readable outdoors. -- Doug, K8RFT
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DougVL
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Re: NanoVNA with bigger screen
Isn't complex impedance Rs + Xs j? But you said S21, which is also complex (although often displayed as magnitude and phase). But convertible to equivalent series R and X, with some math. There's been
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Jim Lux
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Re: NanoVNA with bigger screen
Hello to all, Thanks for all your inputs, I made a few searches and I saw the devices you told. Actually, I just need to work up to 150MHz, I build solid state amplifiers and I need to tune the low
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Pedro Madeira CT7AHV
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#33319
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Re: NanoVNA with bigger screen
I recently bought the SeeSii nanoVNA-H4 which has a 4" screen. I love the larger screen. It is useful up to 1.5 GHz, but my use for HF radio is just 3 to 30 MHz, plus VHF and UHF, so this is fine for
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Robert Rose <robert.rose@...>
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Re: Outliers in group delay measurement
Thanks Fran?ois for the response and taking the time. I wanted to put another plot on here, this is with another NanoVNAH4 I have and the outlier is in the middle of the sweep at ~130MHz. The
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astech119
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Re: Inductor model
Nice job Ignacio. How many turns on your pickup coil? I had to wind my pickup coil around the end of the inductor to get enough coupling for a response. The dip is fairly close to the SRF estimated by
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Mike
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