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|    Capacitor Tester    |
|    03 Jun 18 08:21:33    |
      I dont have a capacitor tester. (Well a very small one on my Digital meter)       I want one that is good general use.       Some seem to only go to 100 or 200 uF. I think you really need something that       goes to maybe 4000uF. I looked at some electronics I have they have for       example 2200uf.       I want to spend less than 100 Canadian.              I have seen a few Honeytek A6013L Capacitor Tester or Klein mm1000 which seem       to fit the bill. Although some sites list the values differently.              Any recommendations ?. I know if they are cheaper the quality is less but       these seem to be decent for someone like me. testing a few things on broken       routers and switches that may have bad Caps.              I'm also confused, some reading tells me only to get ESR meters to test Caps.       That an ordinary meter will not do the job properly.              I'm confused why people don't use esr's if other meters dont work correctly.       Is the ESR really needed for my needs, for example simple testing of a wide       variety of Caps.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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