> It’s a generally accepted truism that once you’ve acquired your first frequency counter, you slowly get sucked into the Cult of the Time Nuts and their never ending quest for increasingly accurate time measurements.
I only narrowly managed to escape this fate after acquiring an HP 5345A, a massive fifty pound brick that was the fastest (and thus accuratestest) reciprocal counter for some time. It's a pretty strong black hole for money.
I’m currently at 3 frequency counters, but past weekend at the Silicon Valley electronics flea market, I managed to walk away without buying that 4th one.
I managed to sell the HP after acquiring a (somewhat) smaller and (much) lighter Philips counter which also uses a 500 Mhz reference clock so it can do more countings per counting. So I only very briefly had two. Glad it didn't exponentially escalate at that point: https://i.imgur.com/NCKDQEh.jpg
I only narrowly managed to escape this fate after acquiring an HP 5345A, a massive fifty pound brick that was the fastest (and thus accuratestest) reciprocal counter for some time. It's a pretty strong black hole for money.