Re: Cheap ESR meter

Try Atlas ESR meter from Peak Electronics or Farnell. This also gives capacitance value as well as ESR reading. About £80-90 inc delivery and ready built.

Re: EVB ESR Meter (Bob Parker Design)

Hi
I bought the Atlas ESR meter from Peak Electronics in UK. It shows ESR and capacitance. It comes with test leads and two small gold-plated croc clips. You have to press a button to start the measurement, but the good thing is that it switches itself off after a minute or so.
I have used it to test motherboard caps in-circuit and it works well - just make sure you get the version with the latest firmware. I bought mine from Farnell and it was a very old model and constantly hung! Peak upgraded it for free and now works well....

Re: Netgear routers are also affected

[url]http://forum1.netgear.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=14114&highlight=capacitor[/url]

picture of my blown cap



Re: Netgear routers are also affecte...br /> :cool:Re: Netgear routers are also affected

[url]http://forum1.netgear.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=14114&highlight=capacitor[/url]

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They seem to have used Tolon caps in 2003 routers. Mine has a blown cap.
Many others on the Netgear forum seem affected also!

Lets hope we don't see a Boeing 737 on this list!

cheers
Steve

Re: Linksys 10/100 Switch

Bad news! Netgear equipment is affected as well!
I have a DG824M built in 2003 and it has a bad Tolon cap!
From the Netgear forums it seems many people have issues with older routers dropping the ADSL connection and other intermittent problems which only started happening after a year or two!
cheers
Steve