Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
Adding to my reply: The reactance of 470nH at 50kHz is barely 0.15?. You cannot expect the NanoVNA to measure that accurately. You need at least 5MHz or so to bring the reactance up into a range
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Manfred Mornhinweg
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Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
Ed, The value marked on a component is supposed to be valid at a very low frequency. As soon as the frequency goes up, parasitic effects become increasingly important, so the actual value of the part
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Manfred Mornhinweg
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Re: Using a nanoVNA to test a transmitter
#newbie
#general_vna
To over simplify a bit, the nanovna is a transmitter. It also has a sensitive meter circuit inside, which would probably be destroyed by power from an external transmitter such as your kit. A poor,
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DougVL
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Re: Using a nanoVNA to test a transmitter
#newbie
#general_vna
The short answer is NO you still need a dummy load or an attenuator that can handle the power from the transmitter. Then VNAs are not really designed to do spectral analysis of transmitter output.
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Evan Hand
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Using a nanoVNA to test a transmitter
#newbie
#general_vna
This might be a dumb question, but I wanted to know if you can use a nanoVNA to test a transmitter built from a PCB kit (like instead of a dummy load). I realize VNAs are usually used for antenna
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Cierra
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Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
Hello Ed, Curious, if you go to item13 on your card, take that reading at 50 kHz and SUBTRACT the L value from the reading at 50 kHz done at item8... Do you get 470 nH? A reading of 700 nH at 50 kHz
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alan victor
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Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
HI, I use a different approach when I need to know the exact value of inductance or capacitance, I build up a simple jig on a PCB mount connector with a series 50 ohm chip resistor then put the
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Mel Farrer <farrerfolks@...>
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Re: rf-demo-kit schmatic and BOM
Not exactly like this, but see: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001204244685.html and
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Stan Dye
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Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
There is always some parasitic C around, which usually "reduces" (or cancels) some of the inductance - sort of the opposite of what you're seeing - but in any case, the amount of cancellation you get
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Jim Lux
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Re: Original (mid 2019) nanovna not updated - after calibration, S11 open shows 7.5 dB, not 0 dB
Alan, thank you - that fixed the issue! Dave
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David Feldman
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Re: rf-demo-kit schmatic and BOM
Does anyone know of an SMA equivalent to this board? I expect it would be an order of magnitude more expensive, but u.fl connectors are only expected to live through <10 insertion/removal cycles. I am
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Brent DeWitt
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Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
Thank you for the responses. I think I was unclear. What I am trying to understand is how one relates the marked value of a component to what nanovna shows. Using DL5FA¡¯s item 8 inductor, my devices
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Ed Krome
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Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
The inductance won¡¯t change with frequency (to a first order approximation and especially over a somewhat narrow range). What will change is the reactance with respect to frequency. XL= 2*pi*F*L XC=
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Ray Anderson
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Re: SWR trace stuck at bottom of display after firmware update to v 0.8.0
#firmware
Roger, Thanks for the suggestions. I have updated the firmware in my nanoVNA to v1.0.45 and everything is working fine now. I would like to try the new NanoVNA app (Windows) by OneOfEleven, but I'm
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gmendenh1947
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Re: measuring Capacitance or Inductance
The inductance will change with frequency.? I use the Smith chart and the resistance and inductance are displayed at the marker frequency. Bob
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Bob Albert <bob91343@...>
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measuring Capacitance or Inductance
Concerning how to measure capacitance and inductance on the RF Demo board (or any capacitor or inductor), reference /g/nanovna-users/wiki/16592. I can get the curves shown in this
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Ed Krome
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Re: SWR trace stuck at bottom of display after firmware update to v 0.8.0
#firmware
Why not try the latest version by DisLord (1.0.45) in the files section of this group. Some nice enhancements and it works with the new NanoVNA app (Windows) by OneOfEleven which has more features
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Roger Need
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Re: SWR trace stuck at bottom of display after firmware update to v 0.8.0
#firmware
Sweeping normally. This is not the problem
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gmendenh1947
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Re: SWR trace stuck at bottom of display after firmware update to v 0.8.0
#firmware
Roger, I wanted to try the new features in v 0.8.0-20200620 released on Jun 19, 2020 by edy555 including the contributions of DiSlord. I posted looking for a solution and if it is a bug, I wanted to
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gmendenh1947
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Re: rf-demo-kit schmatic and BOM
Hello Frank, I do not have a BOM, but some documentation: /g/nanovna-users/wiki/16592 73, Rudi DL5FA
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Rudi
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