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Offline ErikTheNorwegianTopic starter

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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #25 on: March 14, 2014, 03:51:22 pm »
The curves 47mF 10volts capasitor.


CAP-1B



 EDS-88A


Both tips, the CAP-1B has Fluke gator attached.



DST-88A custom made tip


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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2016, 02:07:19 am »
I know this is an old post, but I have to say,  that has to be the most horrendous and despicable soldering and overall pisspoor construction I have ever seen. It's a total hack job. Who builds these things, Ray Charles? They brag about made in USA, yet I have not seen a single Chinese electronics made this poorly. What a disgrace...
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2016, 10:54:16 am »
Well, Capacitor Wizard is probably a 100% design from 1995. Nowadays you can buy or build an AVR component tester
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/$20-lcr-esr-transistor-checker-project/

http://www.mikrocontroller.net/svnbrowser/transistortester/

or buy a Cyrustek chipset based LCR 100kHz meter like CEM DT-9935 or many others.

I think that most people know well about this.
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #28 on: October 29, 2016, 10:28:47 am »
Who in his right mind would buy that garbage Capacitor Wizard?
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #29 on: October 29, 2016, 08:03:56 pm »
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Who in his right mind would buy that garbage Capacitor Wizard?

Anything of value in your post?  :-//
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #30 on: October 29, 2016, 09:01:47 pm »
Quote from: P90 on October 06, 2016, 02:07:19 am
I know this is an old post, but I have to say,  that has to be the most horrendous and despicable soldering and overall pisspoor construction I have ever seen.

Then you have not seen much. Watch EEVBlog #822.
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #31 on: December 03, 2023, 12:24:22 pm »
Component side.
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #32 on: December 03, 2023, 02:26:26 pm »
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2023, 09:35:36 pm »
Well, this capacitor wizard was good back in 1995. https://www.midwestdevices.com/index.php
It might do the job. $239.95 USD is too much. You can buy a handheld LCR meter for that. I just randomly found this... https://eleshop.eu/de-ree-de-5000-lcr-meter.html

I have my CEM DT-9935 lcr meter since 2012...
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/cheap-lcr-meter-cem-dt-9935/
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #34 on: December 31, 2023, 09:44:21 pm »
Quote from: ErikTheNorwegian on December 03, 2023, 12:24:22 pm
Component side.
It looks ugly, but it might work just OK.

There are some asian made LCR meters in a similar price range as the capacitor wizard.
https://www.tequipment.net/ExtechLCR200.asp
https://www.electron.com/digital-multimeter-rlc-uni-t-ut612-p54037/

Quote from: LaurenceW on February 02, 2013, 02:45:04 pm
OK, straight away, I can tell from the first photograph that what you have there will be based on the same chipset as a large number of other mid-range LCR meters that use the same cyrustek ES51990 chipset, also found in Mastech Ms5308 (which I have), GenRad/IET DE5000, to name but two of many.
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Re: A quick teardown of Capasitor Wizard ESR Meter, a few pictures.
« Reply #35 on: January 01, 2024, 11:05:59 pm »
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