| Inductors and capacitors are two types of components that have several things in common, yet they are very different. For instance, both can...
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| The popularity of All Things Test & Measurement among Elektor readers got substantiated once again recently by Pico C, a cute DIY capacitanc...
| Even upmarket digital multimeters boasting a built-in capacitance meter are useless if you want to check out tiny capacitances like 2.7 pF o...
| An ohmmeter or capacitance meter will not measure anything across a quarzt crystal, since it will have a resistance of several megohms (MO)...
| To keep the circuit simple as well as compact, it was decided to use a chip made by Maxim Integrated Products, the MAX2606. This IC from the...
| The two most important properties of a capacitor are its capacitance and its internal resistance (ESR). You need to know both values in orde...
| When it is required to make a measurement at a node of an RF circuit, connecting to the circuit using a normal oscilloscope probe, even on t...
| Most commercial digital Capacitance meters can measure capacitors from a few pFs (picofarads) up to 2,000 µF (microfarads). A few are able t...
| As demonstrated in this article, a simple test instrument is sufficient to unravel the mysteries of the cryptic and impossibly small print o...
| How about an in-circuit capacitor tester to take the strain out of tracking down faulty capacitors? No need to solder out any capacitor, sim...