Hi all. I was excited to receive my first decent meter (B&K Precision 2709B) after owning a couple junkers that failed or were sporadic.
I loved the safety features, accuracy, speed, and the wide capacitance reading range of the BK.
Unfortunately mine seems to be way off when reading all kinds of caps over 100uf.
It read a 830uf polymer cap @ 350uf, a 3300uf electrolytic cap at 2000uf, and a 470uf electrolytic cap around 300uf.
I realize DMM's aren't super accurate with capacitance and before you tell me this is somewhat normal, let it be known that I have a $20 amazon meter and a UEI meter reading these caps almost dead on.
I really wanted to like this meter, the probes are amazing compared to my previous ones. Even the build quality is not as bad as some made it out to be.
Should I simply be requesting a replacement asap from the seller? I bought it at testequipmentdepot.com
**EDIT** Tinkering around with it more, I noticed it's much more reliable if autorange is enabled when in capacitance mode. Also, it hates if I use jumper cables in addition to the leads. If I just use the leads by themselves on the caps, it's a ton better. Not sure what I think about this whole process yet.