Someone in another forum suggested using this to check for bad capacitors. He said that dying or bad ones produced much more heat or were hotter than good ones. When I looked it up I only found it for sale and no instructions on using it.

So, do you think it's a useful tool and if so can you tell me how it would be used?

Thanks

When I was given this a couple weeks ago the lamps would come on for a second or so and then go off. I looked it over and found no obvious bad things. I was thinking projector project so was foolish enough to pull the plug on one of the lamps to see what would happen. It would not come on and still will not after plugging it back in. I dimly remember a warning about dismembering these for projectors that (I think) said that you might need something to put some kind of load on that circuit.

I have only a cheap and poorly reviewed multitester and limited (very) knowledge of how to...