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Georgen
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Posted: 05:00pm 03 Jul 2013
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I don’t have proper capacitor testing device.
But heard that it can be done with ordinary Multimeter

Would this method work when capacitor is still in circuit, or I have to remove it from circuit first?

I am talking about 25V 430uF capacitor, also device will be unplugged from power point and capacitor shorted before I attempt any testing.
George
 
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Posted: 11:20pm 03 Jul 2013
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Most times its faster and cheaper not to stuff around with such a small basic cap and just replace it, there is limits with testing caps and they might test ok but still fail in circuit.

Pete.
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Georgen
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Posted: 01:26am 04 Jul 2013
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Good point, will have to do it this way.

Thanks for help.
George
 
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