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| Do you have a need to find faulty capacitors? High ESR can lead to problems. Back in 2002, Elektor published an article about a DIY in-circu...
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| What do capacitors have in common with wires in water or fingers touching metallic surfaces? Quite a lot, as the author discovered with his...
| Looking for an analog ESR meter to check and find bad capacitors? You can build your own. Here is one approach.
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| The proposed measurement principle is based on constant current, making the measurement completely insensitive to the series resistance. Th...
| A bad capacitor shows different capacitance values for charging and discharging; a perfect capacitor will have the same values. Knowing this...