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Old 3rd Dec 2017, 11:47 pm   #9
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Default Re: Should an electrolytic capacitor have measurable resistance?

AFAIK all analogue meters have reversed polarity when set to a resistance range (DMMs do not) Whilst, as ukcol says, testing a capacitor on the resistance range of a multimeter doesn't provide any useful information unless the capacitor being tested exhibits a fixed resistance withe the prods applied either way round, a capacitor being tested in this way should show a very low resistance at the start, but this should gradually rise to (near)infinity as the cap. charges.
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