Multi tester from Ebay

Got this in the mail today. Nifty little device!!! Measures Everything I threw at it except got some caps that also have a ferrite bead on the outer two pins,

but if I lift the center leg it reads ohms but gets the capacitance correct if I life either outer leg.

Had some bad parts that it got right and Some parts I thought were bad I tested but are ok!! This will save some money for sure.

It seems to be well built as well, its pretty heavy for a small device. I will put a back on it tho so it won't short out on anything
on the bench as the under side is exposed.

the SMD section works great and I even tested some 1206 case size resistors and caps. With my aging eyes this thing will be great!

And for those who build stereo amps or any other project where you want to match part values this will be perfect, as it reads capacitance
of diode, and mosfets and also ESR of caps.

No leads. And I think the caps have to be out of circuit and discharged. I saw that on one of the peoples e-bay page that sell similar devices. This did not state it and there is no instruction manual.

you just stick the parts legs in and press the button. It figures out if its a Diode, transistor, mosfet resistor inductor etc... on it's own.

I'll put leads into the device ZIF grid and then to some caps on a board I am working on and see what happens. Still afraid of not discharging the caps.

Athanasios

I like it so far. I wished I looked on their store page as they have different models that can actually do more and come in a case but for more money of course.

For 23 dollars shipped I couldn't go wrong.

Athanasios

I bought the Anatek ESR/Low Ohm tester kit around 8 years ago and it still continues to be one of my favorite meters to use, probably because I had to assemble it myself. It is capable of in-circuit cap testing and I was skeptiical but so far I haven't been able to catch it being wrong so it's reliable.

One thing it won't test is in-circuit non-polarized caps. I haven't tried out of circuit yet because it was just yesterday I discovered that while testing caps in a MMT speaker crossover it can't do non pol's.


One thing I didn't know it could do until watching the youtube vid on the Anatek site was to determine the viability of batteries. They test a power tool battery in the video and immediately know if it's will hold a charge or not. Pretty cool.

It would be nice if the At-a-Glance stick-on reference chart showed more range but I assume it's possible to extrapolate my own numbers for caps I test that are out of range of the chart, I just haven't gotten around to it.

shop.anatekcorp.com/products/component-analyzers/blue-esr-kit/?query=category.eq.Component%20Analyzers&back=products

Looking at their website I see the price has come down over the years and they've increased their test equipment product lineup for other component testers. I've seen similar testers online for much much more but given the quality and reliability of the Blue ESR/Low Ohm tester kit over the years I'd definately feel more comfortable buying the Anatek brand over other brands.

FYI: I don't work for Anatek nor do I sell their products or receive any compensation for endorsing their products. I'm just a humble learning electronic repair hobbyist and know how easy it was/is for me to use the Anatek ESR tester so I can focus on getting right to work enjoying the hobby.

Next tester phobia to conquer?...an O-scope. I'll hopefully be able to find a deal on a 2ch 100MHz unit once I recover from back surgery I'm getting March 6th (shiver) and get back to work and have the $$.