Del spends a crapload of money......on old test equipment
Many of you know I screw with old outboards. One thing that you need is a high voltage leakage test as well as capacitance test for the condensers, and a way to test coils. When I first saw this girl I thought it was REALLY old......like vacuum tubes.......like the '50.s But it actually contains some IC's and transistors. From the "somewhere in the 80's" Military. Built like the proverbial brick outhouse. We'll see, I guess. Another 50 bucks for shipping
The military manual for it if you care about such things
https://www.liberatedmanuals.com/TM-9-4910-736-14-and-P.pdf
This can measure coil resistance which is a minor thing......any multimeter can do that
It can measure "condenser" (capacitor) value, and that is fairly minor, as you can now buy inexpensive meters to measure that
But what is a bit hard to come by is a repeatable standard to measure capacitor leakage at high voltage
And it has variable current to an ignition coil under test, and can measure the output voltage. This way, you can line up a bunch of (say, outboard magneto) coils and compare them for current in vs voltage out, and high voltage leakage.
I just hope the damn thing works
Many of you know I screw with old outboards. One thing that you need is a high voltage leakage test as well as capacitance test for the condensers, and a way to test coils. When I first saw this girl I thought it was REALLY old......like vacuum tubes.......like the '50.s But it actually contains some IC's and transistors. From the "somewhere in the 80's" Military. Built like the proverbial brick outhouse. We'll see, I guess. Another 50 bucks for shipping
The military manual for it if you care about such things
https://www.liberatedmanuals.com/TM-9-4910-736-14-and-P.pdf
This can measure coil resistance which is a minor thing......any multimeter can do that
It can measure "condenser" (capacitor) value, and that is fairly minor, as you can now buy inexpensive meters to measure that
But what is a bit hard to come by is a repeatable standard to measure capacitor leakage at high voltage
And it has variable current to an ignition coil under test, and can measure the output voltage. This way, you can line up a bunch of (say, outboard magneto) coils and compare them for current in vs voltage out, and high voltage leakage.
I just hope the damn thing works
