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Re: Tantalum capacitor replacement?
- To: n8vem-s100@googlegroups.com
- Subject: Re: Tantalum capacitor replacement?
- From: Frank Schieschke <f.schi...@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 03:23:36 -0700 (PDT)
- In-reply-to: <002301cfcb0a$dd19a2b0$974ce810$@avitech.com.au>
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Hello John,
an higher ESR
(Equivalent Series Resistance) is a bad characteristic of an capacitor (especially in switching power supplies).
You can not measure the ESR with an LCR meter.
Here is an good and not so expensive ESR meter
Frank