Damnit, help choose LCR meter, torn between the two.

[Wartex]

1KHz... meh.

Your reading comprehension is poor...
and "meh" is tired.

meh.

[jarvis]

Here's the user guide.
http://flircompletesolutions.com/instruments/resources/manuals/LCR200_UM.pdf

[psicopato]

Yet another good looking LCR meter:
http://www.tmatlantic.com/e-store/index.php?SECTION_ID=193&ELEMENT_ID=2081
Up to 100kHz, sorting modes, e.t.c. Not as accurate as Tonghui TH2822C or BK, but 3 times cheaper.

Someone got this LCR meter?

Does it works like it looks? I mean, does it worth the price for the functions it has?

[eeshop]

Yet another good looking LCR meter:
http://www.tmatlantic.com/e-store/index.php?SECTION_ID=193&ELEMENT_ID=2081
Up to 100kHz, sorting modes, e.t.c. Not as accurate as Tonghui TH2822C or BK, but 3 times cheaper.

This meter is BAD NEWS. Bought back in January cause it was cheaper than any other LCR meters that could do 100kHz - short summary - IT SUCKS.

First of all, it's s advertised as capable of doing precise resistance measurement with 4-wire Kelvin probes, but it doesn't, the extra connectors are just shields, they are shorted to ground and aren't used for measurements.

Second, when measuring ESR - it can only reliably measure at 100Hz and 1kHz. At 10kHz and 100kHz it's almost always shows errors. Other measurements are also extremely flaky, I actually ended up using a cheap $40 LCR meter off ebay because it actually works and makes better measurements, although no ESR, so still looking for something that can do good ESR measurements.

Finally - the seller - TMatlantic - once you send him your money, you might as well forget about it because he'll do anything to avoid giving you a refund. I've been getting runarounds from him for a week with no resolution before I opened Paypal dispute. He finally agreed to do a return, but after he received the meter back, he refused to give a refund saying that per his accounting rules he can't do a refund if customer opened a Paypal dispute first. I don't know if he's ignorant, or just a thief and a liar, because disputes get closed by Paypal automatically once seller issues a refund. He just plain refused to refund and told me I could keep fighting it through Paypal if I wanted to - so it took like a month going through Paypal to get a refund. Seems like TMatlantic.com is being run by some borderline scammers. I'll be making sure to avoid dealing with TMatlantic.com and Aktakom in the future.

[rbola35618]

Aktatom buyers be ware.

Here is a review of the Aktakom LCR meter. It has a problem in the open circuit zero calibration. Any parasitic larger than 25pF will make the open calibration fail. You can use the meter but will have to subtract the capacitance (parasitic). I got the same run around by the company. I would not recommend buying this LCR meter. I still use it but with reservations.

[T4P]

Not sure if you are interested in mastech or not , but this is one huge LCR/ESR Meter .
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/533326722-MASTECH-MS5308-Handheld-AutoRange-LCR-Tester-wholesalers.html

[Wartex]

So, now we have Agilent U1733C or Tonghui TH2282C, both are 100 KHz. Tonghui is 4 wire but has a min/max bug. Agilent is 2 wire but has better support.

[free_electron]

i have a tonghui. works fine but the display is a bit odd to read with those elongated characters. and it drains batteries .... and the 'smd tweezers' look like htey date back to grandpa's era ...

apart from that , no complaints.

now, compared to my Agilent 4263b .. the tongui is a toy ... that cost me more than the used 4263 b i scored on fleabay ...