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Re: Any Recommendations for capacitance Meter ?

Depends what you want to do...

Repair equipment with lots of electrolytic caps -> ESR Meter

Reform Vintage Electrolytic caps -> Eico 950B or Heathkit IT-11 (which will need to be rebuilt itself...)

Measure signal caps or electolytic caps for leakage at actual B+ values --> Sencore LC-53 (expensive, but GREAT meter)

Sort boxes of unknown caps for value / matching --> cheap digital cap meter.

Digital cap meters are pretty useless for tube repair, leaky caps will just test as if they have a higher value. 9v across a cap doesn't tell you much about how it will act at 450v.

Alan Douglas' book on tube testers and test gear is a great resource on this stuff...

- Gary



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