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Old 04-25-2012, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by tubesrule View Post
...You can take a typical Class 2 or 3 ceramic capacitor connected to a scope and by just tapping it, observe the voltage it generates.
You can also hear the capacitor 'click' from a voltage spike applied across it (as in the breakdown test on an old style cap tester).
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