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I came up idea of new voltage measuring method. It's really tiny voltmeter, which is built in lcd poster. It has three wires - GND, VCC (5-30V) and measuring wire (0-30V). GND of course has to be common. Mounted in on P5E3 Deluxe and it works great. Accuracy is very good too - on 7900GS I had 1.282v on DMM and 1.27V on this poster. Here is the picture, how it looks placed on P5E3. It's powered from 8-pin ATX connector.

 

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Myself and wizerty have been using these little things for a while, they rock! It will flood the OC world now i see

 

PS: i have those exact same ones. I never used them this way though, cool ideaaa

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The whole point of DMM's were to be accurate, these don't seem to be. Neat tho!

 

I found some in Germany for 2,50€ per piece. Measurement error 1%. Actually pretty good if you just want to measure a voltage of e.g. 1,213 volt.

  • 3 months later...
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Hi guys!

 

Was looking for some of these. But was wondering how to connect the wires. As you know, one is for GND, but other two... where I´m supposed to put them?

 

And last but not least how can I power on the lcd (to make it work).

 

Thanks

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Shame on you guys for buying that tool :)

 

I am working on a open source device for read some voltage imput with a good accuracy and k-probe temp.

 

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  • 1 month later...
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Hi guys.

 

Some time ago bought these Voltmeters ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/310862159064?var=610236090264&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 ) from Ebay. Finally, received them yesterday.

 

Have been testing them on a Sapphire HD5770 Vapor-X, but only got "1V" readings, no fluctuation from there (static 1V). On testing points the DMM shows 1.28V.

 

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Have I connected something wrong? Tested more that 1 voltmeter and the result is the same

 

Black (Ground)

Red (12V)

White (Measurement)

 

Thanks for reading :).

Posted (edited)

No, throw these in the trash. They have 1% accuracy, which means 1 digit after the decimal sign.

You have a potentiometer on the back side to adjust the reading according to DMM, but from 1.16 to 1.25 it will show 1.2, from 1.26 to 1.35 it will show 1.3 and so on.

 

I got fooled from a seller's picture and description, but fortunately got a refund afterwards, because the info was wrong. They have corrected it since then.

Look for 0.1% accuracy or better.

 

Otherwise you can connect red line to any 3 to 28V source.

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No, throw these in the trash. They have 1% accuracy, which means 1 digit after the decimal sign.

You have a potentiometer on the back side to adjust the reading according to DMM, but from 1.16 to 1.25 it will show 1.2, from 1.26 to 1.35 it will show 1.3 and so on.

 

I got fooled from a seller's picture and description, but fortunately got a refund afterwards, because the info was wrong. They have corrected it since then.

Look for 0.01% accuracy or better.

 

Is possible for you to share the link of those voltmods? Really is a shame :(.

 

Thanks

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