Three Under $500: benchtop test equipment

Janine Love- August 24, 2012

I just took a quick look on eBay for some used benchtop equipment (the WWW has put a whole new spin on the term ‘window shopping’). Anyway, I found these beauties. (Note that they may disappear as they are sold.) What do you think? Anything look like a good buy to you? And where do you shop for your home (or work) test equipment?

Bench Top High-accuracy 0.2% LCR Meter & Component Parameter Tester 10kHz $283


Would you trust this one for low frequency component measurements?
The manufacturer/seller says it can be used for quality control on
production line, incoming inspection of components and automatic test system.  Specs are below. What do you think? Is its measurement speed fast enough?

Specifications:
Measurement parameter L-Q, C-D, R-Q, ︱Z︱- Q
Basic accuracy 0.2%

Equivalents circuit series, parallel

Rang model auto, hold

Trigger model internal

Measurement speed fast 12, med, 5.1, slow, 2.5 times/second

Calibration function open/short sweep correction

Measurement terminal 5-termainal

Display model direct

Display large character LCD with backlight

Signal frequency 100Hz, 120Hz, 1KHz, 10KHz

Out impedance 30Ω, 100Ω

Test level 0.1Vrms, 0.3Vrms, 1Vrms

Power supply 99V-121V, 198V-242V,47.5Hz-63-Hz

Power consumption ≤2 VA

Dimensions (W X H X D) 270mm x 139mm x 290mm

Net weight 3.7Kg