26-07-2011, 10:00 AM
the pot on the front panel was there to make it easy to set the fsd on the meter before you started to use it to test caps so if you put in the drawer for a year you would need to get to that pot knob to re-adjust the fsd before you used it again just incase the 9 volt batery had dropped significantly whilst in storage so he must of been thinking that he would need easy access to that pot for adjustment and probably a lot of other people would of thought the same as him, mind you it may not ever need adjustment so what you have done by placing it inside also works just as well so it gets down to personal choice. is my schematic was missing the second capacitor i would have been questioning further over why it was missing before i went and ordered the parts to build it.mind you lots of circuits will function quite well with parts missing which are not crucial to its operation in this case, bear in mind that circuit diagrams uploaded to the internet are not always complete as the designer of the circuit assumes that for example pin 14 and pin 7 of ic,s are for the positive and negative but are not always drawn in, sso forums are neede to discuss whats missing or incomplete or setup wrong or 1 wire on the schematic is drawn the wrong way in there cad program, human error factor is always there.and bill gates famous words were (thats a good upgrade) as he always looked for improvment on what he had thus making his company so successful.
