[ARC5] Capacitor Tests

[Rich Post]

You can hook up a digital meter on the volts setting in series with the
cap.  The leakage after full charge up can be read directly from, for
example, one of the cheap 1 megohm input Harbor Freight meters.  Every volt
on that meter is one microamp of current.  I use that scheme to test
tube-era cap checker sensitivity as described here:
<https://people.ohio.edu/postr/bapix/CapChkr2.htm>

Rich KB8TAD

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 8:51 AM Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Relative to caps leakage as described by Robert Downs is it feasible to
> simply hook a miliammeter in series with a DC power source and measure that
> leakage?   I think I will give it a try this morning.
>
> Wayne
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