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Inside a cheap set of eBay digital calipers
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Big Clive tears down a cheap eBay digital caliper, explaining its capacitive linear encoder and measuring its quiescent current. He finds it surprisingly accurate and repeatable for its price.
Cited in caliper threads as a teardown showing how cheap digital calipers work and that they are better than expected.
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