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- ST52SAD Smart Tweezers unit
- Calibration Certificate
- Swiss-made straight test leads
- Custom carrying case
- Micro USB cable for charging from a USB port
Mac
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
Accurate and ergonomic LCR meter. Great aid to repairs. I am going to get it upgraded to a Bluetooth version
VB
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2018
I'm using it primarily while working on prototypes of industrial automation control devices - the instrument works exactly as described, I had no any glitches or malfunctions yet. Great aid for repair, building or tweaking up boards with small SMD components (those seemingly gold plated tips it comes with are easily landing on 0402 footprint components and are of good quality overall - the "shorting" resistance is less then 40 mOhm) - saves alot of time in comparison to frustrating process to do that holding probes of conventional multimeter as chopsticks. Fast and accurate (compared with readouts of benchtop Fluke multimeter) readings, crisp graphic OLED display, plenty of measurement modes and presets (including, for the instance, caps ESR, diode voltage drop (useful for transistors as well) measurement, etc. The thing like these tweezers becomes exceptionally useful for finding right replacement components to scavenge from scrapped boards for resuscitation of device being repaired.The interface is convenient and reasonably intuitive for such small instrument - the brief look at supplied "menu tree" card and you got it (e.g., the "joystick control" has direct shortcuts to common measuring modes and parameters setup.
Jacamo
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2018
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Mark Huth
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2017
While pricey, the investment has already paid off in trouble shooting a complex board that has numerous 0402 components. I'm surprised by the accuracy, although I wish it would go to 100 kHz to better isolate the component under test from the rest of the network. In a matter of minutes I found the bad component. When I removed it from the board I found that excess flux had prevented it from bonding to the pad, leaving the trace partially open. While other instruments at a lower price will work for larger components, this seems like a very good tool for the really small stuff.I have also found it good for sorting components that are in cut tape, but not clearly marked. I have a pile of resistor values where the printing on the tapes was illegible. I can use the Smart Tweezers to poke through the tap and contact the component to take a measurement without removing it from the carrier.
Victoria Levy
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015
The ST5-S hand-held LRC meter has precision/accuracy which closely matches that of much more expensive lab-bench LRC instruments, with pretty much one exception, the measurement/sampling frequency option... very high-end instruments in this category will support the option for > 10KHz, often to 100KHz or 1000KHz, whereas the ST5-S goes up to only 10KHz,. However, unless one is measure very small value SMT capacitors and inductors, this is generally not an issue.The OLED display is very sharp & clear, (you may have to wear your glass to see some of the details), but it is quite readable, in virtually lighting conditions.It's smart auto-device detection capability is very handy, thus it is very easy to use and compact, the Li-Ion battery last for several hours before requiring re-charge... overall, it is most definitely worth the price.
Kostas Christodoulou
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2013
A high quality product but expensive .The ESR measurement works fine and it is very important when you are testing electrolityc capacitors in high frequency .
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