He found it under the seat of the car he just bought.
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He found it under the seat of the car he just bought.
That a pretty good little meter, but yes, no capacitance.
If you really want that ability but don't want to buy another multimeter, you can wire up a little circuit and use some resistors and some math to help you measure capacitance.
mickeyf
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Only thing I ever got that way was an old but usable pair of vice-grips. But I only paid $5 for the car.
While a plain vanilla ohmmeter won't tell you the capacitance, it can tell you if the thing is is dead open or shorted. And analogue VOM is nicest for this. From discharged, it should read close to zero ohms rapidly rising towards infinite or at least a very high value. If it stays at zero consider it shorted. If it starts at extremely high and stays there, consider it open.
Ya, but you are not @David. He regularly craps out horse shoes.
Most of us are fairly confident he has a shop full of elves to do all his projects for him too. His completion rate isn't possible any other way.
I do...Unfortunately I don't have an ammeter
I also have a capacitor ESR meter. As capacitors age the Equivalent Series Resistance goes up. Normally only an issue with switching power supplies.