[TCML] Measuring capacitance

jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 27 08:05:58 MST 2009


Brandon Hendershot wrote:
> I'm looking to make a new tank cap this Christmas and I'd like some help 
> from a meter to measure the farad rating to aid wiring the in a mixture 
> of series and parallel. The only thing I can think of that would measure 
> farads is an ohmmeter. Do they make a farad meter? If not, how do you 
> convert ohms to farads?

Yes they do make meters that can read capacitance (typically in 
microfarads or picofarads... a farad is pretty big).

The wavetek 27XT used to be quite popular, and may still be.


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