Checking your Hertz (Hz) on your machine

[psychosailor]

Anyone know how to hook up a multimeter to your machine to check the HZ. Ive place each clip on the clipcord, but the numbers seem very high. I've heard most liners should be around 115-120 HZ and shaders should run around 100-110 HZ. When I hook the positive up to the contact point screw it seems a little closer to the correct range. But not sure if this is the correct way to measure it. Any help would be much appreciated. I spent $100 bucks on this damn multimeter that reads HZ but now im not sure how to measure it. I thought the readings would be the same anywhere but I think maybe you have to measure after the capacitor to get the correct reading, hence the contact point screw. Also the reading do seem to fluctuate a bit, not a steady read. Is this normal. Any thoughts are much appreciated!!

[Inky]

Hi there! You can mount the cable from the multimeter to the positive clipcord attack on the machine and then take the other cable to the contact screw, then your meter shout come out with some numbers there is nearly the same as Eikons meters , some multimeters has a buttom to changes the way it take the sambles on called triger level you can try to set that buttom in and other position if the first reading is not okay and the same can be done with the positive and negative cable from the multimeter. cange the cables from negative to positeve in the meter.
I hope this helps, if this does not work you can get a occilascope programe on the internet that you can connect to you sound card and you can take very correct messuments that way. With that program you can messure the hz. and the duty cycle and the follow thru. But this is a bit hard core. Here is the link for the program:
http://polly.phys.msu.su/~zeld/oscill.html
Inky

[psychosailor]

Thanks INky! Ill try it that way and see what I get. Im also gonna try out the program you sent the link to. Thats too cool that you can use your computer and sound card as an Oscilloscope.

Any idea on how the headings the program measures align to hz , duty cycle and the follow thru. I see settings in the program for the following:

Gain
Sweeps
Delay
Trg Lev


thanks again Inky or anyone else who can chime in!!!