Re: Help understanding this test equipment?

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From: Ian Stirling
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:43

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In sci.electronics.design DaveC <anon@example.net> wrote:
> 
> A friend is wanting to make a soil resistance testing setup. The regulatory 
> agency he'd be contracting for states the following for the setup:
> 
> The resistivity meter shall be an
> alternating current (AC) system or a 12-V
> direct current (DC) system with a Wien
<snip>
> I understand the description of each of the components, but haven't a clue 
> how they'd fit together in a resistance-measuring configuration. 
> 
> Suggestions as to what off-the-shelf components one could use to put this 
> together would be greatly appreciated.

Why not simply read it so that "the resistivity meter shall be a ..., OR"
The second bit simply specifies a (possibly specific model of) AC 
resistance meter.


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