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Old September 28th 08, 11:38 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Dave Plowman (News)
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Default Testing capacitors

In article ,
Marky P wrote:
Is it possible to test capacitors reliably without a capacitance
meter?


A 'capacitance meter' doesn't really test caps. For electrolytics you need
an ESR meter. They're fairly expensive so probably the best means of
testing is substitution.

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