| A KIT solution,
an affordable professional unit
Frequency counter
is one of the basic electronic measuring instruments. Many similar projects
have been published in the previous years, but they all either lacked
functionality, reliability or were simply too complex. This article presents
a low cost frequency counter with a rich set of very useful functions
(for example addition or subtraction of intermediate frequency -
10.7MHz, 455KHz, 9MHz or CUSTOM) putting to shame even many professional
and much more expensive models. Microcontroller does most of the work
and keeps circuit simple. This is an easy to assemble KIT, including microprocessor
and all parts, including mains transformer. A prescaler can be added to
extend its usefulness to 4GHz or more (unit will display correct frequency
with prescaler installed). Extensive instructions are provided with the
unit.
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