I finally gave that cheap capacitor tester a shot

Been avoiding the $25 no-name tester from Amazon for like a year, figured it'd be junk. Used it on a whirlpool fridge that kept tripping the start relay, caught a weak 12uF that read fine on my old meter. Has anyone else had luck with the budget testers or am I just getting lucky?

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dylan_green5817d ago

That 12uF reading is the thing that bugs me. My old Fluke would show 11.8 and hold steady, and these cheap ones tend to bounce around depending on how you hold the leads. I've seen a buddy of mine get totally different numbers on the same cap just by flipping it over. So you might be right, or you might just be fixing a fridge that had a bad relay anyway. If the tester was truly junk, you wouldn't have found anything, so that's something. But I'd still verify any bad reading with a known good meter before I order a part.