On 12/07/2015 03:57, Ralph Mowery wrote:
"N_Cook" wrote in message
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The cheapo fleabay one, I could not find the pk-pk voltage in ESR mode, in
the specs. Do you know what it is? I consider that to be a vital
requirement as most of my testing is in-circuit , unlike the shown
examples of isoltated componenent testing. Must be no more than .2V and
ideally .1V, so as not to turn on anything active, in circuit

The fleabay one uses the same basic circuit design as the Peak meter. Peak
is screwing the people as they make one for non simiconductor devices and
another one for simiconductors. Whe ebay one does both and the origional
software for them does both using the same circuits.

I don't know the specs for it, but I did put it on a analog scope and from
what I can tell when I hook a capacitor across it there is a large voltag
pulse around 4 votls or so and then a low voltage pulse of about .2 volts.
Both going +and -.




Thanks for that, I suppose at that price its worth getting as a
spare/second opinioner. My old one is 15KHz sine , or was before
clamping with reversed germanium diodes across the probes, to limit the
applied voltage, but it is good enough for go/no-go of 5uF or so electros.