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TonyDuell · 23rd Oct 2017, 7:23 pm

Quite often a cheap capacitor tester (or the capacitance range on an DMM) will think a leaky capacitor has a higher than expected value (basically, the capacitor takes longer to charge as the charge is leaking away).

I wonder if that's what is going on here.

23rd Oct 2017, 7:23 pm	#31
TonyDuell Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Biggin Hill, London, UK. Posts: 5,208	Re: What is a CSN60? Quite often a cheap capacitor tester (or the capacitance range on an DMM) will think a leaky capacitor has a higher than expected value (basically, the capacitor takes longer to charge as the charge is leaking away). I wonder if that's what is going on here.