Colin,
You echoed my experiences with the Cobalt. I also have a Britech (sp?) from
Canada which has a narrower aperture, so I will try experimenting with some
wire. But, unless it is highly accurate, I wouldn't chance hooking up
something pricey and risk blowing some components because I had the polarity
reversed.
Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message -----
From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: The TW2 came.
> I've got one of those color detecters too, the cobolt.
> I have had extremely limited success trying to identify wire colors with
> any
> sort of solid or neutral background...i've tried black background, white
> background, grey, brown, a bunch of different backgrounds.
> I think part of the issue with the cobolt is that the mouth of the device,
> where you place the item to be color identified, is very large...and it is
> difficult to get really tight focus on the lense.
> Also, allot of wires these days will have a strip of color on a solid
> colored insulator background that indicates the apparent "color" of the
> wire. So, unless the lense is positioned directly over that strip, it'll
> just say black, or gray or what ever color the wire or background happens
> to
> be.
> I had another color identifier years ago that was probably ten times more
> accurate and useful for this kind of thing than the cobolt...I don't
> remember the maker, but it was also about a quarter the size compared to
> the
> cobolt...
> the lense could be tightly focused on a small item, and it also told you
> saturation, hugh and so on if you wanted.
> Of course, it was around $500 I think which is also much much more than
> the
> cobolt unit.
> I haven't tried the color identifier function on my nokia phone for
> getting
> wire colors yet...the camera lense can be tightly focused so perhaps that
> might work better.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:48 AM
> Subject: Re: The TW2 came.
>
>
>> I've got a Cobolt colour detector. What I do with it to look at wires is
>> to lay
>> the wire on top of my power supply. The supply is in a gray metal case
>> so
>> it
>> provides a pretty nutral background and I can often tell wire colors that
>> way.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
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