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Originally Posted by vortalexfan

I saw some capacitor wizards for sale on epay but the price was too rich for me, $275!

Yikes! They were expensive back then too but not that much!

I ended up getting a MAT Electronics Analog ESR Meter model MUL3333 that can test capacitors in-circuit and it was only $45 (I will have to use the cables from my old ESR Meter as the original cables didn't come with this unit but they were basically just your standard mini-banana plug style cables.

Sounds like a deal. Both of mine test in-circuit. As long as the applied AC voltage is below the conduction point of the semiconductors in the circuit .6 V or less they will do that no problem.

so what do you think of the circuit diagram I uploaded showing the capacitors in question?

I'll look at it in a little while. Busy fixin' food.