{"id":725,"date":"2011-04-21T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T11:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/?p=725"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:05:17","slug":"pcb-short-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/geek-area\/great-tools\/electronic-test\/pcb-short-finder","title":{"rendered":"PCB Short Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/shortfinder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-726 alignnone\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/shortfinder.jpg\" title=\"shortfinder\" width=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/shortfinder.jpg 320w, https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/shortfinder-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Finding shorts in PCB&#39;s can be a nightmare.&nbsp; Digital multimeters typically don&#39;t measure down to the &lt;1mOhm level required to trace down where the fault is located.&nbsp; This &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.farnell.com\/jsp\/search\/productdetail.jsp?SKU=4284148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Model 1000 Short Finder<\/a>&quot; seems a bit basic and costly for what it is, but it&#39;s another worth it&#39;s weight in gold tool when it&#39;s needed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Update<\/strong> &#8211; This simple but really useful multimeter add on improves on the short finder above: <a href=\"http:\/\/jaanus.tech-thing.org\/category\/half-ohm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jaanus.tech-thing.org\/category\/half-ohm\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/halfohm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1007\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/halfohm.png\" title=\"halfohm\" width=\"204\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIts a simple op amp circuit which displays mOhm readings as mV on your multimeter and well worth having as part of your workbench toolbox.&nbsp; You can easily make it yourself but the ready built module from <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.tech-thing.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shop.tech-thing.org<\/a> fits right into a standard multimeter such as the fluke series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding shorts in PCB&#39;s can be a nightmare.&nbsp; Digital multimeters typically don&#39;t measure down to the &lt;1mOhm level required to trace down where the fault is located.&nbsp; This &quot;Model 1000 Short Finder&quot; seems a bit basic and costly for what it is, but it&#39;s another worth it&#39;s weight in gold tool when it&#39;s needed. Update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronic-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}