Posted 6 years ago
ho2cultcha
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i bought this from a homeless person on the street last night. I have no idea what it is. Can you tell me? looks military. ??
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Test Set - TS - 26 ?? what am i? | ||
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Posted 6 years ago
ho2cultcha
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i bought this from a homeless person on the street last night. I have no idea what it is. Can you tell me? looks military. ??
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It looks like a meter for measuring voltage and resistance. Maybe military.
What you have here according to the schematic is a megger with a VOM( Volt-Ohm-Milliamp Meter) without the ammeter function. You may be saying; "Explain that to me in English."
A volt meter measures voltage of course and a ohmmeter measures resistance in circuits or components. When you're measuring resitance in components, circuits etc. on a small scale you use a low voltage DC source for power, the 4.5 volt battery in the schematic. A ohm meter has to apply voltage to the component/circuit to indicate the resistance reading on the meter. A small voltage is good enough to give you an accurate reading without potentially damaging components.
The megger(megohmeter) measures breakdown of insulation of conductors(wires). A megohm is a million ohms. There should be no current leakage between properly insulated wires. You need a much higher voltage source for meggers.
Evidently this set was used to test for insulation breakdowns or shorts in communication long distance wires, cables etc. You can see the meter distances on the chart.
Did I help or confuse? I was an electronics technician and I love old radios and vintage miltary elecronics equipment. I don't what era this was used in. It looks in pretty good shape. If there's no corrosion from batteries being left in it, you could pop a new set of batteries(I'll bet the 45 volt batterry would be expensive) in this thing and it would work. Military equipment is rugged. Like I said, I love stuff like this, thank you for sharing.
Excellent info Toryrebel.
great info toyrebel! thank you. i understood some of it.
Sa wha, again ? LOL !!!
Next time I'll post in Latin, Blunderbuss!
@Toyrebel - Small world! I was an electronic technician, too, from 1978-1992, specializing in biomedical and aerospace electronics. Then I specialized in computer hardware for a few years, then computer software for a few more, followed by about 17 years of server operating systems and server operating system security and finally a few years of security risk assessments. I am now working on forgetting how to change a light bulb (retired!).
Toyrebel, how about in Alabamese ?
Blunderbuss: This heah thang will tell you if'n yer warz are feelin' a mite puny.
Kwqd: That's awesome! I should have known you were a kindred spirit, my technician's sense was tingling. I started at TI in Dallas in may '79. Worked on S3a and A7 FLIRS at first. Transferred over the GSI division, actually the parent co. of TI and worked in the TIMAP IV group. It is truly a small world, I also have hung up my test leads and just play with my toys.