Jeff Liebermann wrote:



All work quite well. I mostly use the Capacitor Wizard because the
meter reading is faster than the digital variety, that requires
shorting the leads to zero the display (to remove test cable
resistance from the measurement).


** How absurdly lazy, zeroing only takes one or two seconds and does not need to be repeated unless the meter is switched off. All ESR readings are virtually instantaneous after that.

If the cap is being tested out of circuit, no leads are normally needed.

However, this meter is not terribly accurate below about 1 ohm.
Good enough for testing electrolytic capacitors,

** No it isn't.

The ESR of most electros of over 1000uF is under 0.05 ohms.



.... Phil