Seen this on eBay!?

[martin martin]

This looks like NOS!  Maybe buy two of them

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-SANWA-FC-639A-Frequency-Counter-JRC-Nixie-Tube-B-5870-Display-Japan-vintage/173932307199?hash=item287f2c62ff:g:M~4AAOSwgphdAoXc

[gregebert]

Too bad it's not a DMM; I would have bought one.

[Shaun Merrigan]

I scooped one up just for the NOS cool factor.  😎

Shaun M.

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No Regret

On Jul 8, 2019, at 22:01, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Too bad it's not a DMM; I would have bought one.

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[Dylan Distasio]

I did as well, thanks to the OP for sharing.  FYI, the seller accepted an offer of $120 (plus shipping) from me if anyone else is considering scooping one up from the list.

I couldn't resist, although I'm not sure what I am going to be realistically doing with it any time soon.  In the back of my mind is the dream of turning it into a clock of course, similar to the Evil Mad Scientist reworks of HP FCs which still use the FC function for timekeeping, but it may be beyond my time and abilities, at least for the foreseeable future.

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[martin martin]

I have this one from a local surplus, but NOS sure looks good!

Please post a pic when you get it- would lie to see in operation!

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[Dylan Distasio]

I just got mine in today.  FYI, for anyone who is in the US, I neglected to notice that this unit come set to 220V by default.  Although I am not very good with transformers, I noted in the manual it said that the taps could be changed, so I decided to open the case and take my chances :-).  It has two windings in parallel, with taps for 0, 100, 110, and 117.   There was a jumper connecting the two windings at 0/110 (for 220 total).  I unsoldered that, and unsoldered the remaining wire on the second winding to 117V and resoldered it to 117 on the first, crossed my fingers to avoid the magic smoke and turned it on.  I was greeted with a nice orange glow across all 5 tubes showing zeros!  I've never actually used a FC before so I have to figure out plugging something into it to check other digits but it looks to be in working order as far as I can tell.  

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