How To Test A Capacitor With A Multimeter (Step-By-Step)

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In this video, we show 3 methods on how to test a capacitor with a multimeter. The first method refers to the resistance test of the capacitor, the second is about the capacitance test, and the last one is about the voltage test.
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00:14 Tools Required For Testing Capacitors
00:42 How To Test A Capacitor With a Multimeter
1:35 Capacitance Test
2:03 Capacitor Voltage Test
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  • @ElectroUniversity
    @ElectroUniversity Жыл бұрын

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  • @lgmnowkondo938
    @lgmnowkondo9383 ай бұрын

    it would help if you showed a failed capacitor...what will that show?

  • @JustMe-gx4xt
    @JustMe-gx4xt6 ай бұрын

    This test was NOT correct. In the last step, he tested the battery voltage since the 9v battery was still connected. What he should have done was disconnect the jumper cables before testing the charged voltage of the capacitor.

  • @larrymace2361

    @larrymace2361

    4 ай бұрын

    You are right, however, he already addresses this mistake in the video.

  • @gabrieldegois8687

    @gabrieldegois8687

    3 ай бұрын

    True. Do disconnect the battery before or else you will measure the battery voltage.

  • @111boldoo

    @111boldoo

    2 ай бұрын

    How long should we wait before disconnecting the jumper ?

  • @larrymace2361

    @larrymace2361

    2 ай бұрын

    @@111boldoo Depends on a few factors but you can calculate it if you know all the parameters. You will need to know the capacitance in farads so if you have a 1uf capacitor you would change it to its value in farads so 1uf would be 0.000001 farads. Next, you need to know the resistance of the circuit, with the setup they have, it is so small yet not 0. Use a small value if you are using wire like in this video but like I said not 0. Now the fun part! The formula for this is T = R * C * Tc T(charge time in seconds) = R(resistance in Ohms) * C(Capacitance in Farads) * Tc(Time Constant) For the Time Constant, we are only worried about the first 5 so if you want to know how long it will take to reach 63.2% charge then use 1 if you want to know how long it takes to reach 99.3% charge use 5. We are not worried about anything over 5 because a capacitor starts charging fast and then slows down and after it reaches 99.3% it charges super slow past that. So here is an example let's say we have these values Our resistance is 10 kOhms, Capacitance is 1uf, and we want to know how long it takes to reach 99.3% charge. Our formula would be T = 10,000 * 0.000001 * 5 T = 0.01 * 5 T = 0.05 So for our example, we know that after 0.05 seconds we will be at 99.3% charge close enough to know if our capacitor is good. Just so you know, if we use the same capacitor value but change the resistance from 10 kOhms to what this particular setup in the video would be less than 1 ohm, however, I'm going to use 1 just because at these values it really doesn't matter. T = 1 * 0.000001 * 5 T = 0.000001 * 5 T = 0.000005 So to finish this long post, unless you have a very high capacity capacitor and a very high resistance, you will charge the capacitor almost faster than you can clip it on and take it off. However, you may have a large value capacitor you want to test so I find it better to explain the math so you can do these calculations yourself. Hope this helps and was easy to understand, I wanted to explain it in a way that even someone not familiar with electronics could understand it.

  • @pontiacexchange4386

    @pontiacexchange4386

    Ай бұрын

    @@111boldoo The capacitor will be fully charged almost instantaneously. When it discharges it will release 50% of its power - then 50% of the remaining power - then 50% of the remaining power and so on and so on till discharged or charged back up.

  • @Bianchi77
    @Bianchi77 Жыл бұрын

    Nice info, thank you for sharing it :)

  • @kabandajamir9844
    @kabandajamir9844 Жыл бұрын

    The world's best thanks

  • @Inoce-dk6ey
    @Inoce-dk6eyАй бұрын

    Appreciate.thanks

  • @train4905
    @train4905 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic

  • @train4905

    @train4905

    Жыл бұрын

    😊😊

  • @acaaca2909
    @acaaca2909 Жыл бұрын

    Helpful video, I love your tutorials

  • @ez4009
    @ez40098 ай бұрын

    It was plain and simple instruction thanks for your help.

  • @mebuild2609
    @mebuild26097 ай бұрын

    Thanx

  • @HKYT649
    @HKYT6499 ай бұрын

    thx

  • @OneyPlaysClips
    @OneyPlaysClips9 ай бұрын

    Has there ever been a point in history where it's worth it to remove every single part, and test every single component to fix something?

  • @AeroCraftON

    @AeroCraftON

    9 ай бұрын

    For science!

  • @OneyPlaysClips

    @OneyPlaysClips

    9 ай бұрын

    @@AeroCraftON i suppose if it helps. this made me realize i'm throwing away my old car eq though

  • @jj987987987

    @jj987987987

    6 ай бұрын

    You don’t, and that is why you learn to read schematics. You trace the board and find the comment that doesn’t work well and perform the test. I’d you are going to remove everything on the board just to test it that means you don’t know anything about it and have zero idea what you are doing.

  • @TheAWSOMEWORLD

    @TheAWSOMEWORLD

    6 ай бұрын

    When hvac co’s want to charge you $19k for a new system. YES! 😊

  • @theprogrammerrolandmc3039

    @theprogrammerrolandmc3039

    6 ай бұрын

    ESR meter will test capacitors in circuit multimeter is the worst thing to test a capacitor with

  • @niteshmurti
    @niteshmurti2 ай бұрын

    can i test capacitor without removing it from the circuit board?

  • @pontiacexchange4386

    @pontiacexchange4386

    Ай бұрын

    No

  • @niteshmurti

    @niteshmurti

    Ай бұрын

    @@pontiacexchange4386 ok

  • @eduardobranco5455
    @eduardobranco54556 ай бұрын

    But how can I test a 2200uf capacitor if multimeters only go about 20uf?

  • @JohnPooley-te9ei
    @JohnPooley-te9ei5 ай бұрын

    Nice1..Electro & thank u

  • @nrcz3
    @nrcz33 ай бұрын

    but with no markings how do I test to know what side is what? + -

  • @irgnedeinname

    @irgnedeinname

    10 күн бұрын

    There are non-polarized capacitors with no defined + and - contact. With those it doesn't matter which side is connected to positive and which to negative. If it has no markings it's probably non-polarized sometimes also referred to as a bipolar capacitor. Most ceramic capacitors for example are non-polarized

  • @Mahigeer1
    @Mahigeer16 ай бұрын

    3:02 "....make sure your buttery (power source) is off" What is buttery? If it is a typo for battery, it shows connected.!!

  • @_LuxStein

    @_LuxStein

    3 ай бұрын

    There are two types of people: 1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

  • @AedanBlackheart

    @AedanBlackheart

    Күн бұрын

    @@_LuxStein and those that are buttery

  • @Snurre86
    @Snurre86 Жыл бұрын

    2:00 is 8.5 a good value for a 10uf capacitor? 15% lower?

  • @kevinerose

    @kevinerose

    Жыл бұрын

    I looked up capacitor tolerance online and it says up to +/- 20% is acceptable. More expensive capacitors can have +/- 1% tolerance values.

  • @kevinerose

    @kevinerose

    Жыл бұрын

    I just watched another video saying he replaces capacitors if they are out more than 10%. Maybe that is what technicians are told when to replace capacitors. A technician may want to swap them out at 10% just so they don't have to come back later for another service call? IDK. What do you think?

  • @Snurre86

    @Snurre86

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevinerose yeah, maybe, they probably lose value over time.

  • @dakromis

    @dakromis

    11 ай бұрын

    @@kevineroseThis is the case to my best knowledge, the capacitor already has demonstrated its starting to fail rather than having a callback that we have to prioritize we just replace the capacitor outright, they’re very cheap usually

  • @3333927

    @3333927

    9 ай бұрын

    @@kevinerose +- 20 % is ok, because on circuit boards manufacturers use higher rated capacitors than really at least needed. But when ever it's possible just replace every one below 10 % of its rating. You don't want to repair things more often, just because you didn't replace a cheap capacitor below 10% of its rating.

  • @bm7760
    @bm77606 ай бұрын

    Third test didn't make any sense to me. If you'd removed the battery wires first I'd have understood it was something to do with the cap storing a voltage, but as it was you were effectively just connected to the battery were you not? I'm just here for some help with wiring a guitar. Don't pretend to understand this stuff at all.

  • @JustMe-gx4xt

    @JustMe-gx4xt

    6 ай бұрын

    This test was NOT correct. In the last step, he basically tested the battery because the 9v battery was still connected. What he should have done was unplug the jumper cables first and then test the voltage of the capacitor.

  • @bassamsalam4938
    @bassamsalam49388 ай бұрын

    In the voltmeter test , you got 9 volts and you said that the capacitor is good. If the capacitor was bad what value should I read in the voltmeter test ? Thank you

  • @paulos9304

    @paulos9304

    7 ай бұрын

    That will read whatever the battery is, he is measuring the battery. This has nothing to do with the capacitance.

  • @laserborn5787

    @laserborn5787

    7 ай бұрын

    I thought the same thing

  • @nikoz4841

    @nikoz4841

    7 ай бұрын

    Shorted capacitor will bring 9v to much lower reading.

  • @gabrieldegois8687

    @gabrieldegois8687

    3 ай бұрын

    If done correctly, should show the same voltage as the battery if given enough time to charge the capacitor.

  • @StagnantMizu
    @StagnantMizu23 күн бұрын

    why infinity ohm on a cap? and first so low?

  • @irgnedeinname

    @irgnedeinname

    10 күн бұрын

    When you charge a capacitor you have current going in right? The closer it gets to being full the less current flows until it stops completely. Remember the basics: high resistance means low current and vice versa. A multimeter measures resistance by applying a low testvoltage and measuring the resulting current. And with voltage and current it calculates the resistance. When measuring the resistance the capacitor gets charged with the multimeters testvoltage. While the capacitor is charging from empty to full the current decreases until it hits zero. The resistance behaves opposite to the current. So if the resistance doesn't continuously climb to infinity during the measurement it means there is a low resistance electrical connection inside the cap between the two sides that shouldn't be there and hence the test result would be: "failed"

  • @surabacha2955
    @surabacha29552 ай бұрын

    ITS BEST FOR THE BEGINNERS

  • @mike7gerald
    @mike7gerald9 күн бұрын

    The voltage test is a false set up because you're just measuring the voltage of the 9V battery.

  • @RaffaelloLorenzusSayde
    @RaffaelloLorenzusSayde7 ай бұрын

    Do i have to remove every single capacitor? Can't i do it while on the circuit board.

  • @AedanBlackheart

    @AedanBlackheart

    Күн бұрын

    no

  • @ahmednor5806
    @ahmednor58065 ай бұрын

    🙏🙏🌹🌹

  • @KumlachewKumlachew12-oi4ni
    @KumlachewKumlachew12-oi4ni8 ай бұрын

    Bset

  • @mrmatymoo
    @mrmatymoo3 күн бұрын

    there's an "L" in soldering.

  • @elijahreed1356
    @elijahreed13564 ай бұрын

    The voltage test at the end was the most brain dead shit I've ever seen

  • @JohnPooley-te9ei
    @JohnPooley-te9ei6 ай бұрын

    Nice1..Electro & thank u

  • @ElectroUniversity

    @ElectroUniversity

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your support!

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