Biddle.....anyone?

Sep 26, 2003 1 Replies

I have just been given a "Biddle Versapot", model 72-311. My question is, wtf is/does this thing do? It's panel says "calibrator/potentiometer". I haven't had any luck with searching the net, so I thought I'd ask here. Thanks.



James G. Biddle Co. Plymouth Meeting, PA cat. # 72-311 ser. # 78538



I opened it up to see it's clean, and has lots of batts. Don't want to replace the batts without more info. It looks like it could be useful, if I knew what its application was... Thanks again.


It sounds like a "Precision Potentiometer", which was used from the 1800s to the 1940's, at least, to make precise measurements of small voltages, as from strain gauges, thermocouples, etc. the circuit is essentially a Wheatstone Bridge with a reference cell, a type of Mercury battery.

Jon

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