You don't need to spend up big to measure capacitor ESR. You can do
it for about 99 cents!
Take your browser to http://octopus.freeyellow.com/esr.html and see
what I mean.

Bob


"cl" wrote:

Ugly or not, so long as it gives me the info I need, I can overlook the
rest! At least you have one. I'm still stuck in the 19th century waiting to
get one online. One of these days!!!!!! Thanks for the tip, I'll check it
out.

cl