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Old 12-23-2016, 03:20 AM
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Solar CE and Oxford Tartak CT-400 Capacitor Analyzers

Somehow, some way the wonderful world of Internet auctions has led me down another rather interesting path. I have had the Solar version of what was supposedly the top drawer of multi function bench testing equipment perhaps around the mid to late 1940s for quite a while.

In unrestored condition it funtions good enough to view current draw on electolytic capacitors and serves as a good unit for reforming old lytics. The capacitance bridge works fairly well, but the built in VTVM never seemed to do much, but I never worried much with the unneeded functions.

Then recently the CT-400 showed up by a company I have never even heard of. It seems to be a carbon copy both inside and out. It will need a little more work as the output voltage fails to show on the meter and the dual 10mfd filter caps are getting warm although the mighty power tranny is cool as it can be which is a huge plus. Still I will replace the two 10s before proceeding much further. There sure is a lot going on inside that little box of knobs!

Anyway, just yaking about some interesting test equipment and curious as to what anyone out there has to say; good, bad or otherwise.
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