"too proud to conform to international standards of measurement... pretty dumb in my opinion... anyway it measures 8 and 1/6 of an inch..." I hope it is a pun.
Having had a Soviet electroengineer grandfather (a colonel/ palkovnik in the Red Army no less) i'm quite used to seeing these ancient devices. Watching a US-American "working" with these gives me those rare fuzzy Apollo-Soyuz vibes.
@andrew_koala2974 Hungarian indeed has a few loan words from neighboring peoples - how could they not - despite considerable efforts through the mid 1700s of eradicating them. That said, there is no and never had been any Austro-Hungarian language as they are entirely nonoverlapping, linguistically speaking. Words adopted on either side during the timeframe of their alliance does not render them a common tongue. Source: I'm rather fluent in both Hungarian and German. Have a nice one!
In order to measure the capacitance you have to connect 195-245V@50Hz AC source phase to "U" terminal, neutral to common "*", than capacitor for test to "Cx" and common "*". Keep in mind that it provides about 25V AC to "Cx" terminal, so you cannot use it for measuring polarized capacitors.
Приветствую! Here's a translation of the strange hieroglyphs from the back of the device. 1. Перед включением прибора переключатели переделов измерения установить в положения "2,5 А" "1000В" Измерение емкостей и сопротивлений х1000 с наружным источником питания производить как показано на рисунках. 2. Перед измерением сопротивлений или емкостей вращением диска "_уст.0" установить стрелку на "0" шкал "Ω" или "nF" при закороченных сопротивлениях или отключенных ёмкостях. 3. Если не удаётся установить стрелку на "0" шкалы "Ω", то следует сменить внутренний источник питания. 1. Before switching on the device, set the measurement range switches to the "2.5 A" "1000 V" positions Measuring capacitances and resistances x1000 with an external power source should be performed as shown in the figures. 2. Before measuring resistances or capacitances, by rotating the "_уст.0" disk, set the arrow to "0" of the "Ω" or "nF" scales with shorted resistances or disconnected capacitances. 3. If it is not possible to set the arrow to "0" of the "Ω" scale, then the internal power source should be changed. P.S. You can take a photo of cryptic text with knowledge of dead civilizations and load it to the Google Translate. Real-time translation from a camera is a complete garbage.
Whenever I buy something like this, I like to send a quick message to the seller. Generally, a short note letting them know that you'd appreciate a local newspaper/periodical is all it takes to get a treat, if you're so inclined!
5:47 I'm from Germany and we seem to do it the same way here as the Soviets did back then. In physics/electronics we differentiate between the unit and the symbol used in the formula. For example, Voltages are all prefixed or named using U, like a common UB which stands for "Betriebsspannung" or operating voltage, while the unit is in Volts, with the typical V shorthand. So it's common see a UB = +12V somewhere. Same with current, the symbol in formulas is I with the unit shorthand A for Amperes. ✌️
Before ww2 Soviet Russia had a lot of connections with Germany. And German was much more common as a second language than english or French. So it is very possible that this multimeter is a copy or some sort of development of a German one. Including the markings. The insights have a strong German engineering vibe.
In Czechia the standard for voltage is also "U". Thus Ohm's law is: U = I * R. Which reminds me that the symbol for a resistor in electrical diagrams is also different. Instead of a zigzag English speaking countries use, it is drawn as a rectangle.
There are also 70s Ц series multimeters that have a real mirror reflective strip along the gauge so that you can read the hair fine needle more precise
Probably because they copied from a German instrument that had class 1 movement - precision movements need fine needles - oh, and they break like mechanical pencil leads if you so much as bump them - can be replaced with very thin wire (even 45 gauge will be stiff if just a half inch long) in a pinch as long as the instrument is meant for horizontal operation (verticals depend so much on balancing that you would be SOL fixing a needle).
That song, and the multiple rocket launcher named after it, is the basis of the whole “from Russia with love” thing. In the song the girl, katyusha, sends her love, by way of the clouds, to her sweetheart fighting on the front (it’s a WWII song). And once the rocket launcher was invented it started sending its own sort of “love”, by way of the clouds, over to the front. Gotta hand it to those old Soviets, they knew how to name a weapon!
When i was working as a technician fixing electronic devices i would have KILLED for a multi meter that could read capacitance. Soooooooo many times it would have made my life so much easier.
That thing is sick. you cant get anything better than something made by hand with people that care. Just having something in your hand like that vs something new and made over seas is really something else. I treasure each tool i have that is decades older than me
@@TheDeadfast It's just that someone very smart in the Soviet Union decided that "V" could also mean Volume and Velocity and it could get confusing. So it'll be U like latin V!
The Soviet Multimeter is absolutely right, they used the international dimension symbols U and I etc., while V and A are the unit symbols, but both are somewhat correct, but U and I is even a little bit more correct, because you select more what you want to measure, than the unit. But you could argument the other way round, too.
As a 57 year old engineer/tech - i cann vouch that the soviet multimeter is a work of art. We had late 60s / early 70's Simpson multimeters and unlike that soviet meter, when you opened up a Simpson it was a rats nest of wiring. They looked like the backside of a VW beetle dash inside!!!!!!!! Don't get me wrong, they were dead nuts accurate, but it looked like a bird wired it. The old, this wire goes here, this goes here, this goes here, with no regard for harnessing or tangles. EDIT: If that late 50s simpson had a PCB - It makes me wonder what era those Simpson meters we had at school (in the 80s) with the birds nest wiring were from!!!!
@@majortom5838 My friend Ben was an expert on tube amps and hi-fi, and he told me that routing the wiring all neat and pretty in a tube amp was a sure way to get crosstalk and interference. He learned this by assembling his second Stereo 70 "like train tracks" and he said it sounded awful. He had to rewire it point to point.
@@majortom5838 An eyelet board, exactly how they were put together, like an old chassis/tube tv - Thanks!!!! All of the students at my high school pretty much had their own digital DMMs
@@brianwelch1579 a former colleague had attempted to "improve" a VHF signal booster, as a teen, by straightening out the wires. Unsurprisingly it didn't work anymore. Board traces are in fact poor quality transmission lines, pigtails from point to point are common in RF.
Look at this UA-camr accidentally outing his _true_ bosses via a mistaken slip of address! More seriously, well done. That was a fun joke for those of us who caught it.
They need to add a second or third like button for videos like this. Also, while the west had a lot of success sabotaging them later on, 60s factory workers in the soviet union were doing pretty good for the most part.
For real. I had videos recommended after this one that were just AI voiced garbage over stock footage with twice as many views. Bring back actual humans with actual knowledge doing actually interesting things!
Capacitance modes on meters from that era usually relied on you connecting mains(!!!) AC into the circuit as per the manual. I tend to want to test all ranges on collectible meters (which has me dinking around with 1600 volts AC and such rather often...) , but as soon as it says ..." jury rig up such and such external circuit with raw mains voltage...." I tend to .... say eff it, not worth the danger, and that mode would be just to dangerous (raw mains) or inconvenient (iso transformer, variac, dim bulb limiter...) to really use...
Fun fact, the package you received isn't just from Maldova. The city of Tiraspol is also the capital city of the (mostly unrecognized) country of Transnistria, which (among other interesting anicdotes) still uses a soviet republic flag.
6:45 - this has nothing to do with national stubbornness. Ω is a unit of measurement, but the selector switch is marked in formula symbols, as in Ohm's law (with a bit of a Soviet twist, U instead of V for the potential difference and lowercase r for resistance).
man, very nice video. Enjoyed everything about it. Someone mentioned soyuz-apollo vibes and, god, I wish the world were more like it these days. thak you
Cool fact. Depending on who you ask, Tiraspol is not in Moldova. It's the capital city of Transnistria. A breakaway state. Officially, part of Moldova, but de facto independent republic with its own government, military, currency and so on. Also, according to many, it's the last Soviet state in the world. The iron curtain never fell for them. So, awesomely enough, you got a soviet tool, from the last and only soviet place on earth.
In elementary school we had to buy at least three different types of lined paper. For almost every class a different one. (Disclaimer for international viewers: In Germany elementary school is usually from classes one to four.)
Bulgarian here. The Ohm's law here is taught as U = I . R. That is U = Voltage, I = Current, R = Resistance and their SI units are Volt, Ampere, Ohm (Greek Omega). PS. I'd say it's the proper notation, since Georg Simon Ohm is German and Germans have it as R = U / I = const.
"I have to assume it is result of national stubbornness, too proud to conform with international standard of measurement, so they had to use their own. Pretty dumb in my option. Anyway..." -> Proceeds to measure dimensions in inch...
The Simpson's main advantage is the tens of thousands of manuals that have been written with it as the test device. That's why it's still made and costs what it does. It's cheaper than rewriting all of those manuals.
@@sonicmastersword8080 there's better meters than Fluke. But there's no meters laid out quite like Fluke. The layout will be part of a detailed procedure. Standardization is part of institutionalization. Some meters have become institutional standards.
You have got to be kidding me! 1976 - 77 I lived in Tehran, Iran. I was a senior in high school (Tehran American School). I was taking a physics class and my instructor was very cool. We took a field trip to Russia (Iran borders on what was Russia at the time) and I picked up a meter just like that!! (except that it was brand new) Later in 79 I worked on an offshore drilling rig in the gulf of mexico as an electrician / electronics tech (Thank you Arkansas College of Technology) and used the Simpson 260 almost every day. SO.. on the rig I had the Russian meter, more of a novelty, and the 260. Never thought I would see one of those again, despite visiting present day Russia 13 trips. P.S. I went on to get my electronics degree and worked offshore as electronics tech on high tech DP rigs for many years. retired in 2014 and have invented a ton of things since.
When I have some serious work to do, I trust my analog meter. For convenience, a digital is great, but you can't replace an analog. Numbers jumping around don't tell you much, but a keen eye can learn a lot from a needle that fluctuates. Although most of my work is automotive, I still have to deal with a lot of electronics and there is a very old analog meter in the shop that is my "go to" when I need something I can trust. I have to agree that the wiring in that Soviet meter IS a work of art. I also love the inside of vintage guitar amps of that era too.
Way back in time, I learned to be a tech with a Simpson. Digital meters started coming in, but they weren't portable at first so they were inconvenient for working on the big radio transmitters we maintained. Analog meters are also good for checking for smooth operation of a potentiometer.
Nice one. But if you want something good as a measurement tool you should look for "Ц43101" or "Ц43103/2". Also, I don't think there were USSR-made wires with silicone insulation, but there are a number with PTFE/glass-fiber reinforced PTFE insulation.
I swear the PCB you were trying to break looked like Railroad crossing Controller boards I used to work on. I have a bunch of them still in my shed. Norfolk still uses Simpison on testing voltages and currents.
I learned on a Simpson, back in USAF Tech school for Aircraft Electrical systems training (1987). They were great meters, with excellent build quality. Once on the flightline, sometime around 1990, we switched to the Fluke 7. Best digital multimeter of all time. Build like a tank, easy controls, and accurate. Dropped it off wing of a C-130 once. Didn't phase it at all. I suppose I could be like a good vacuum tube....... get it? 😁
When you said before that you don't want to turn this channel into soviet tool rewiews, i knew this wouldn't be the case. And so did you. Спасибо за обзор!
Bloody hell, I had one of those. I got it after my grandfather died, used it in my teens as I was a radio hobbyist, but then my parents threw it away when I moved out at 16
A Soviet-born guy here... The reason you couldn't find a Soviet meter from 1992 is because the USSR fell apart in 1991.. and its successor - Russia - was in shambles from the financial crisis. Factories were shuttered, nothing was being produced.
nice!, too bad it's a bit beat up by the previous owner, i found a 4342 combination meter in the local flea market, brand new in the box, from 1984 (with the calibration certificate that says 20/09/1984 and the signature of....someone xD with schematics and component listing).(did a video of it) it is suprisingly accurate and very well protected, if only they write up the 5 and 10 scales, because it only has 25 and when you select something like 10 o 5 you have to do math in your head, that's pretty dumb, other than that i'm pretty happy with it, and i use it often to measure current.
Music box and a multi-meter Soviet Ganga Style! Basic USA 1940’s (Soviet 1960’s) old school device. But only Proletariat Socialist Patriotic Batteries will work. Decantant Western Capitalistic Batteries will cause corruption! Only Socialist Power will give superior Performance.
I worked for a place for a month that designed the oxygen generators for the first usa nuclear submarines, treadwell corporation. The servo valve control was massive multi card analog PID system that was designed by Northrop Grumman. you had to use the old meter for troubleshooting because the input resistance was lower than the new dmm. Funny now we can use a tiny arduino for a single servo controller and it would be faster reacting.
For not labeling the Ohms part, it more than likely was simply because it was cheaper to not print a custom label/whatever to print that, instead just using a letter that they already use for labels.
If there is no inverted T sign but a long dash in all the signage on the meter face, it means you should only trust measurements taken with the meter horizontal.
Both multimeters are excellent for their time and place. How prepared do you feel to put together a Soviet-type multimeter from scratch? that would be a nice project :D
I calibrate for a living. Are you sure the way a meter measures resistance is measuring current and not the other way around? Sending out current and measuring the voltage drop
Yes I believe what you’re describing is how digital meters work- they measure voltage and determine current. Analog meters are kind of the opposite. They measure current and determine voltage.
I’m curious, when you showed the I phone screen to translate the Russian text, was that editing or was that an app? I’d love to know the app if it was one! I work on equipment at cutoner sites, sometimes manuals have German and other languages I do not know. That would be handy
The relationship between R and omega is the same as I and A or U and V R / U / I are the quantities of resistance, electrical potential difference (usually called voltage, though that kinda makes it confusable with Volt as a unit) and electrical current Ohm / Volt / Ampere are the units of measurement for their respective quantities Which I now feel silly for explaining, I may have missed some sort of sarcasm there 🤔
No it isn't. A proper crimp fuses the metal together. Most crimps are not performed that well though. But if you cut a proper crimp open the metal is all one.
@@1pcfred Soldering also protects from corrosion and has a lower resistance. In smaller gauge wiring crimps never fuse the metal. Only in larger high current crimps is that the case, and if vibration isn't an issue those too are usually soldered. In an application where bending/vibrational forces are expected then, yeah, crimping is the way to go.
@@knurlgnar24 crimping is always superior to soldering when crimping is done right. Done right is a big ask. Crimping is also more work and more materials. So Those are major downsides to crimping. In many applications crimping is also impractical to do. A solid mechanical connection is still the gold standard.
I wonder if the resistance measurement is slightly off due to a different battery voltage from a good ol' USA C-cell Copper Top vs whatever weird cell it expects to fit there. Since Ohms law requires a known V to find R, it strikes me that small changes in battery voltage would make a big difference in accuracy. I know modern meters use calibrated voltage sources (silicon chip provided).
Wow, the package opening technique using blowtorch should be tried by everybody. The split banana lugs are actually BETTER than the modern soft compressions ones. Lower R, higher A, but they do need to be spread out. Any internal Brass contacts should be checked for R. They do get corrosion films unless exercised regularly. The Needles have a special designation, known as one-RCH thinness. Those of you who know what that means, will recognize the superiority of the RUS meter. They need to be flats vertical. Do NOT use alkaline or zinc batteries in these, replace with modern Lithium cell converter container, to avoid corrosion damage. Ohms readings will be directly affected by battery voltage, not sure what you put in there, but not correct obviously. We used to repair these, many vendors.
"too proud to conform to international standards of measurement... pretty dumb in my opinion... anyway it measures 8 and 1/6 of an inch..."
I hope it is a pun.
Having had a Soviet electroengineer grandfather (a colonel/ palkovnik in the Red Army no less) i'm quite used to seeing these ancient devices. Watching a US-American "working" with these gives me those rare fuzzy Apollo-Soyuz vibes.
@andrew_koala2974 Hungarian indeed has a few loan words from neighboring peoples - how could they not - despite considerable efforts through the mid 1700s of eradicating them.
That said, there is no and never had been any Austro-Hungarian language as they are entirely nonoverlapping, linguistically speaking. Words adopted on either side during the timeframe of their alliance does not render them a common tongue. Source: I'm rather fluent in both Hungarian and German.
Have a nice one!
In order to measure the capacitance you have to connect 195-245V@50Hz AC source phase to "U" terminal, neutral to common "*", than capacitor for test to "Cx" and common "*". Keep in mind that it provides about 25V AC to "Cx" terminal, so you cannot use it for measuring polarized capacitors.
All you describe makes it a hard pass for me. I want to live!
Leave him be, clearly he can not read an electric diagram. But his videos are fun.
and we go full-circle: from soviet drills to soviet multimeters
keep it going man
Приветствую! Here's a translation of the strange hieroglyphs from the back of the device.
1. Перед включением прибора переключатели переделов измерения установить в положения "2,5 А" "1000В"
Измерение емкостей и сопротивлений х1000 с наружным источником питания производить как показано на рисунках.
2. Перед измерением сопротивлений или емкостей вращением диска "_уст.0" установить стрелку на "0" шкал "Ω" или "nF" при закороченных сопротивлениях или отключенных ёмкостях.
3. Если не удаётся установить стрелку на "0" шкалы "Ω", то следует сменить внутренний источник питания.
1. Before switching on the device, set the measurement range switches to the "2.5 A" "1000 V" positions
Measuring capacitances and resistances x1000 with an external power source should be performed as shown in the figures.
2. Before measuring resistances or capacitances, by rotating the "_уст.0" disk, set the arrow to "0" of the "Ω" or "nF" scales with shorted resistances or disconnected capacitances.
3. If it is not possible to set the arrow to "0" of the "Ω" scale, then the internal power source should be changed.
P.S. You can take a photo of cryptic text with knowledge of dead civilizations and load it to the Google Translate. Real-time translation from a camera is a complete garbage.
о бля. привет
Whenever I buy something like this, I like to send a quick message to the seller. Generally, a short note letting them know that you'd appreciate a local newspaper/periodical is all it takes to get a treat, if you're so inclined!
Oh, and maybe they could help with a rough translation, too :)
Man, your “Bozhe moy” was incredible. I laughed my arse out! 😂
Each one of your videos is a unique gift, thank you for entertaining me without any kind of technical lesson. 🤪
5:47 I'm from Germany and we seem to do it the same way here as the Soviets did back then. In physics/electronics we differentiate between the unit and the symbol used in the formula. For example, Voltages are all prefixed or named using U, like a common UB which stands for "Betriebsspannung" or operating voltage, while the unit is in Volts, with the typical V shorthand. So it's common see a UB = +12V somewhere. Same with current, the symbol in formulas is I with the unit shorthand A for Amperes. ✌️
Before ww2 Soviet Russia had a lot of connections with Germany. And German was much more common as a second language than english or French. So it is very possible that this multimeter is a copy or some sort of development of a German one. Including the markings.
The insights have a strong German engineering vibe.
In Czechia the standard for voltage is also "U". Thus Ohm's law is: U = I * R. Which reminds me that the symbol for a resistor in electrical diagrams is also different. Instead of a zigzag English speaking countries use, it is drawn as a rectangle.
U is for Unterschied :)
geez, that needle on the Soviet one is hair-fine. Absolutely gorgeous bit of kit, inside and out.
When it was opened, I gasped.
There are also 70s Ц series multimeters that have a real mirror reflective strip along the gauge so that you can read the hair fine needle more precise
Probably because they copied from a German instrument that had class 1 movement - precision movements need fine needles - oh, and they break like mechanical pencil leads if you so much as bump them - can be replaced with very thin wire (even 45 gauge will be stiff if just a half inch long) in a pinch as long as the instrument is meant for horizontal operation (verticals depend so much on balancing that you would be SOL fixing a needle).
I really like the Katjuscha-Melody you played at 12:43. Such a wonderfull tune to listen while working on old electronics.
That song, and the multiple rocket launcher named after it, is the basis of the whole “from Russia with love” thing.
In the song the girl, katyusha, sends her love, by way of the clouds, to her sweetheart fighting on the front (it’s a WWII song).
And once the rocket launcher was invented it started sending its own sort of “love”, by way of the clouds, over to the front.
Gotta hand it to those old Soviets, they knew how to name a weapon!
@@fragdude, That sounds like the type of Dear John" letter that no soldier, Soviet or otherwise, ever wanted to be on the receiving end of......💥
wow another video from my favorite SOVIET-TOOL-REVIEW-UA-camR
i hope for many more SOVIET-TOOL-REVIEWS on this SOVIET-TOOL-REVIEW-Channel
For Soviet stuff DiodeGoneWild is a pro. He's lived it his whole life.
When i was working as a technician fixing electronic devices i would have KILLED for a multi meter that could read capacitance. Soooooooo many times it would have made my life so much easier.
Honestly, soviet-era tech is beautiful. They got stuff done in such a beautiful way.
That thing is sick. you cant get anything better than something made by hand with people that care. Just having something in your hand like that vs something new and made over seas is really something else. I treasure each tool i have that is decades older than me
6:30 These markings are a direct consequence of the textual representation of Ohm's law. U=IR
The problem is that in English-speaking countries, Ohm's law is written as "V = IR".
@@TheDeadfast It's just that someone very smart in the Soviet Union decided that "V" could also mean Volume and Velocity and it could get confusing. So it'll be U like latin V!
The Soviet Multimeter is absolutely right, they used the international dimension symbols U and I etc., while V and A are the unit symbols, but both are somewhat correct, but U and I is even a little bit more correct, because you select more what you want to measure, than the unit. But you could argument the other way round, too.
As a 57 year old engineer/tech - i cann vouch that the soviet multimeter is a work of art. We had late 60s / early 70's Simpson multimeters and unlike that soviet meter, when you opened up a Simpson it was a rats nest of wiring. They looked like the backside of a VW beetle dash inside!!!!!!!!
Don't get me wrong, they were dead nuts accurate, but it looked like a bird wired it. The old, this wire goes here, this goes here, this goes here, with no regard for harnessing or tangles.
EDIT: If that late 50s simpson had a PCB - It makes me wonder what era those Simpson meters we had at school (in the 80s) with the birds nest wiring were from!!!!
@@majortom5838 My friend Ben was an expert on tube amps and hi-fi, and he told me that routing the wiring all neat and pretty in a tube amp was a sure way to get crosstalk and interference. He learned this by assembling his second Stereo 70 "like train tracks" and he said it sounded awful. He had to rewire it point to point.
@@majortom5838 An eyelet board, exactly how they were put together, like an old chassis/tube tv - Thanks!!!!
All of the students at my high school pretty much had their own digital DMMs
@@brianwelch1579 a former colleague had attempted to "improve" a VHF signal booster, as a teen, by straightening out the wires. Unsurprisingly it didn't work anymore. Board traces are in fact poor quality transmission lines, pigtails from point to point are common in RF.
Look at this UA-camr accidentally outing his _true_ bosses via a mistaken slip of address! More seriously, well done. That was a fun joke for those of us who caught it.
And so the Soviet rabbit hole that brought me to this channel, and gave me so much other great entertainment, continues!
Im a spimple man, i see a doubtful technician video featuring some foreign tool.. i click.
They need to add a second or third like button for videos like this.
Also, while the west had a lot of success sabotaging them later on, 60s factory workers in the soviet union were doing pretty good for the most part.
For real. I had videos recommended after this one that were just AI voiced garbage over stock footage with twice as many views. Bring back actual humans with actual knowledge doing actually interesting things!
Love the RCR
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Capacitance modes on meters from that era usually relied on you connecting mains(!!!) AC into the circuit as per the manual. I tend to want to test all ranges on collectible meters (which has me dinking around with 1600 volts AC and such rather often...) , but as soon as it says ..." jury rig up such and such external circuit with raw mains voltage...." I tend to .... say eff it, not worth the danger, and that mode would be just to dangerous (raw mains) or inconvenient (iso transformer, variac, dim bulb limiter...) to really use...
I know absolutely nothing about the subject of this video. But, you are so entertaining, I had to watch til the end
Fun fact, the package you received isn't just from Maldova. The city of Tiraspol is also the capital city of the (mostly unrecognized) country of Transnistria, which (among other interesting anicdotes) still uses a soviet republic flag.
Soon Will be in RF ..
I love the address of the John Henry Hammond House took me down a neat rabbit hole of why the soviets bought a mansion in New York
6:45 - this has nothing to do with national stubbornness. Ω is a unit of measurement, but the selector switch is marked in formula symbols, as in Ohm's law (with a bit of a Soviet twist, U instead of V for the potential difference and lowercase r for resistance).
man, very nice video. Enjoyed everything about it. Someone mentioned soyuz-apollo vibes and, god, I wish the world were more like it these days. thak you
I love the b roll cutaway for the "sexiest joke" disclaimer. Wouldn't mind more of those to throw in other jokes now and then.
Cool fact. Depending on who you ask, Tiraspol is not in Moldova. It's the capital city of Transnistria. A breakaway state. Officially, part of Moldova, but de facto independent republic with its own government, military, currency and so on. Also, according to many, it's the last Soviet state in the world. The iron curtain never fell for them. So, awesomely enough, you got a soviet tool, from the last and only soviet place on earth.
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Your wife's right at least in Germany since elementary school I never bought paper with lines again...
In elementary school we had to buy at least three different types of lined paper. For almost every class a different one. (Disclaimer for international viewers: In Germany elementary school is usually from classes one to four.)
More videos like these please, it's very interesting to see old soviet and american equipment. Try some from the DDR too if possible :)
У вас хорошее русское произношение
Спасибо!
Bulgarian here. The Ohm's law here is taught as U = I . R. That is U = Voltage, I = Current, R = Resistance and their SI units are Volt, Ampere, Ohm (Greek Omega).
PS. I'd say it's the proper notation, since Georg Simon Ohm is German and Germans have it as R = U / I = const.
I love those external retaining rings holding the three black knobs!
3:15 how did you get into AvEs shop
The resistance being off could be due to light corrosion on the "music box" contacts. Had equipment with like switches and that was common.
"I have to assume it is result of national stubbornness, too proud to conform with international standard of measurement, so they had to use their own. Pretty dumb in my option. Anyway..." -> Proceeds to measure dimensions in inch...
Beautiful Soviet engineering! For things that needed to be precise, the Soviets made their stuff precise.
On Soviet Russia, you don't measure voltage, voltage measures you.
I liked the 1992 joke the most
outro was so good, when i don't have a video of yours i get the DTs
I love your videos
Update on the inherited trans am?
The Simpson is still manufactured. And it has one major advantage over the digital-it can offer information on the fluctuation of AC current.
The Simpson's main advantage is the tens of thousands of manuals that have been written with it as the test device. That's why it's still made and costs what it does. It's cheaper than rewriting all of those manuals.
@@1pcfredTrue. That and the Fluke is basically the digital equivalent as amongst the best made.
@@sonicmastersword8080 there's better meters than Fluke. But there's no meters laid out quite like Fluke. The layout will be part of a detailed procedure. Standardization is part of institutionalization. Some meters have become institutional standards.
I love how you open boxes.
You have got to be kidding me!
1976 - 77 I lived in Tehran, Iran. I was a senior in high school (Tehran American School). I was taking a physics class and my instructor was very cool. We took a field trip to Russia (Iran borders on what was Russia at the time) and I picked up a meter just like that!! (except that it was brand new)
Later in 79 I worked on an offshore drilling rig in the gulf of mexico as an electrician / electronics tech (Thank you Arkansas College of Technology) and used the Simpson 260 almost every day. SO.. on the rig I had the Russian meter, more of a novelty, and the 260.
Never thought I would see one of those again, despite visiting present day Russia 13 trips.
P.S. I went on to get my electronics degree and worked offshore as electronics tech on high tech DP rigs for many years. retired in 2014 and have invented a ton of things since.
Beautiful piece.
my late engineer grandad (powerplants) had one exactly like this. Ohh sweet memories. Love you grandpa
Graphing paper is pretty common for non-graph maths, but that's about it
When I have some serious work to do, I trust my analog meter. For convenience, a digital is great, but you can't replace an analog. Numbers jumping around don't tell you much, but a keen eye can learn a lot from a needle that fluctuates. Although most of my work is automotive, I still have to deal with a lot of electronics and there is a very old analog meter in the shop that is my "go to" when I need something I can trust. I have to agree that the wiring in that Soviet meter IS a work of art. I also love the inside of vintage guitar amps of that era too.
Love the music box scene with Katyusha. That was clever.
Way back in time, I learned to be a tech with a Simpson. Digital meters started coming in, but they weren't portable at first so they were inconvenient for working on the big radio transmitters we maintained. Analog meters are also good for checking for smooth operation of a potentiometer.
R IS international symbol of resistance, and is used in many European tools, while inch IS NOT an international unit.
Nice one. But if you want something good as a measurement tool you should look for "Ц43101" or "Ц43103/2". Also, I don't think there were USSR-made wires with silicone insulation, but there are a number with PTFE/glass-fiber reinforced PTFE insulation.
I swear the PCB you were trying to break looked like Railroad crossing Controller boards I used to work on. I have a bunch of them still in my shed. Norfolk still uses Simpison on testing voltages and currents.
I learned on a Simpson, back in USAF Tech school for Aircraft Electrical systems training (1987). They were great meters, with excellent build quality. Once on the flightline, sometime around 1990, we switched to the Fluke 7. Best digital multimeter of all time. Build like a tank, easy controls, and accurate. Dropped it off wing of a C-130 once. Didn't phase it at all.
I suppose I could be like a good vacuum tube....... get it?
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Of course you can't find any soviet stuff from 1992. union of advises collapsed in 1991
I'm all about these Soviet tool reviews.
When you said before that you don't want to turn this channel into soviet tool rewiews, i knew this wouldn't be the case. And so did you. Спасибо за обзор!
Bloody hell, I had one of those. I got it after my grandfather died, used it in my teens as I was a radio hobbyist, but then my parents threw it away when I moved out at 16
A Soviet-born guy here... The reason you couldn't find a Soviet meter from 1992 is because the USSR fell apart in 1991.. and its successor - Russia - was in shambles from the financial crisis. Factories were shuttered, nothing was being produced.
Measuring the device in inches after the part about not conforming to international standards was really good. Lol.
The music box segment was great
The music box segment 🤌
nice!, too bad it's a bit beat up by the previous owner, i found a 4342 combination meter in the local flea market, brand new in the box, from 1984 (with the calibration certificate that says 20/09/1984 and the signature of....someone xD with schematics and component listing).(did a video of it) it is suprisingly accurate and very well protected, if only they write up the 5 and 10 scales, because it only has 25 and when you select something like 10 o 5 you have to do math in your head, that's pretty dumb, other than that i'm pretty happy with it, and i use it often to measure current.
Prof in mu uni told us how she "back in her times" was handfiling shunt resistors on factory to make them precise.
"These chinese made american leads are way better". That's hilarious!!!
These comparison videos are the best, is that a polara on the lift?
Music box and a multi-meter Soviet Ganga Style! Basic USA 1940’s (Soviet 1960’s) old school device. But only Proletariat Socialist Patriotic Batteries will work. Decantant Western Capitalistic Batteries will cause corruption! Only Socialist Power will give superior Performance.
Very cool, thank you for sharing! 👍
i believe it needs external alternative source, to make an alternative voltage divider
The manliest unboxing I have ever seen.
I love seeing vintage wax lacing for wire cable management. It's a practice we still use in aerospace... Well, the talented technicians, not me.
Shout out from Romania to my Moldavian Brother and Sisters that put so much effort to pimp out the insides. Didn't forget about you DT "Hai Noroc"
U=AC Voltage, V=DC voltage, A=AC Amperage, I=DC Amperage, Z=Impedance (AC), R= Resistance (DC), C/Xc= Capacitive reactance, L/Xc= Inductive reactance.
This is for europe, dunno about Russia.
That was quite a find! I would like to have it for my instrument collection!
I means current and A is the mesurement used to mesure current.
I worked for a place for a month that designed the oxygen generators for the first usa nuclear submarines, treadwell corporation. The servo valve control was massive multi card analog PID system that was designed by Northrop Grumman. you had to use the old meter for troubleshooting because the input resistance was lower than the new dmm. Funny now we can use a tiny arduino for a single servo controller and it would be faster reacting.
For not labeling the Ohms part, it more than likely was simply because it was cheaper to not print a custom label/whatever to print that, instead just using a letter that they already use for labels.
If there is no inverted T sign but a long dash in all the signage on the meter face, it means you should only trust measurements taken with the meter horizontal.
My 260-6P from 1977 still works but rotary the range/function switch is a little harder to
turn than when new.
Both multimeters are excellent for their time and place. How prepared do you feel to put together a Soviet-type multimeter from scratch? that would be a nice project :D
I calibrate for a living. Are you sure the way a meter measures resistance is measuring current and not the other way around? Sending out current and measuring the voltage drop
Yes I believe what you’re describing is how digital meters work- they measure voltage and determine current. Analog meters are kind of the opposite. They measure current and determine voltage.
These leads belong at a "gender reveal party" ... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I went to tech school in the late 1970s and a Simpson multimeter was the star tool. Until we got to oscope class.
Thanks for the upload
I’m curious, when you showed the I phone screen to translate the Russian text, was that editing or was that an app? I’d love to know the app if it was one! I work on equipment at cutoner sites, sometimes manuals have German and other languages I do not know. That would be handy
Look up google translate in the App Store- you can select your source language and tap the camera button.
Google lens is your way to go 😊
The music… you’re genius 😅
The relationship between R and omega is the same as I and A or U and V
R / U / I are the quantities of resistance, electrical potential difference (usually called voltage, though that kinda makes it confusable with Volt as a unit) and electrical current
Ohm / Volt / Ampere are the units of measurement for their respective quantities
Which I now feel silly for explaining, I may have missed some sort of sarcasm there 🤔
Brilliant video, I love it!
Soldering always better than crimping
No it isn't. A proper crimp fuses the metal together. Most crimps are not performed that well though. But if you cut a proper crimp open the metal is all one.
@@1pcfred Soldering also protects from corrosion and has a lower resistance. In smaller gauge wiring crimps never fuse the metal. Only in larger high current crimps is that the case, and if vibration isn't an issue those too are usually soldered. In an application where bending/vibrational forces are expected then, yeah, crimping is the way to go.
@@knurlgnar24 crimping is always superior to soldering when crimping is done right. Done right is a big ask. Crimping is also more work and more materials. So Those are major downsides to crimping. In many applications crimping is also impractical to do. A solid mechanical connection is still the gold standard.
@@1pcfred A shit solder job is better than a shit a crimp job
This guys humour is gold
I had no idea pcbs were this sturdy!
I wonder if the resistance measurement is slightly off due to a different battery voltage from a good ol' USA C-cell Copper Top vs whatever weird cell it expects to fit there. Since Ohms law requires a known V to find R, it strikes me that small changes in battery voltage would make a big difference in accuracy. I know modern meters use calibrated voltage sources (silicon chip provided).
As long as the pointer can be set to 0, the battery voltage is within spec.
Civilian as opposed to what?
I love the looks of old meters, i have a couple simpsons 260s and a triplett
There are nuts on those lead holes. That's why leads were loose - you need to tighten nuts.
Wow, the package opening technique using blowtorch should be tried by everybody. The split banana lugs are actually BETTER than the modern soft compressions ones. Lower R, higher A, but they do need to be spread out. Any internal Brass contacts should be checked for R. They do get corrosion films unless exercised regularly. The Needles have a special designation, known as one-RCH thinness. Those of you who know what that means, will recognize the superiority of the RUS meter. They need to be flats vertical. Do NOT use alkaline or zinc batteries in these, replace with modern Lithium cell converter container, to avoid corrosion damage. Ohms readings will be directly affected by battery voltage, not sure what you put in there, but not correct obviously. We used to repair these, many vendors.