In Reply to: How high? posted by Lew on January 15, 2021 at 09:26:56:
I should pre-qualify my comments by acknowledging that I don't own an ESR meter. I only use late production electrolytic caps, so I rely on the specified characteristics. That aside, ESR meters usually come with graphs that show generally acceptable windows for ESR based on capacitance. I would use those as a guide, unless it's a fairly new capacitor with a published specification that can be used to cull the bas ones. No, I wouldn't try to reform a capacitor with high ESR. That would indicate to me that the part has dried out.
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- RE: How high? - Triode_Kingdom 01/15/2110:29:06 01/15/21 (2)
- RE: How high? - Lew 12:18:56 01/16/21 (0)
- Thanks for that chart, T_K ;-) ....NT - Coner 11:20:29 01/15/21 (0)