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Old 01-23-2015, 08:42 PM
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Anything short of a vintage eye type cap checker such as the Heathkit C3, is a lousy way to test capacitors. Most caps will fail from minute leakage currents that are too small to measure on a modern low voltage device. Caps need to be checked for leakage at full rated voltage for a test to be meaningful.
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