 Hi there guys, well I just wanted to do just a just a couple of few minutes on this this is a well as you can see it's on the front it's a a mark 326 was it 326 or 328 sorry it's a ESR tester it says TR that's backslash LCR backslash ESR oh TR I presume that means transistor and the LCR would be the inductance and the ESR of course the equivalent series resistance now I've had this for about four months now I think it's very hard to get something and do a review on it straight away I think you're going to be using it for a little while get some first-hand user type thing so anyway like I say I've been using this for the last four months and 21 pounds eBay I think it's brilliant I think it's absolutely brilliant for the money this bring that the reason why I bought this because there are a lot of these other little meters and this is what I started off by so I bought one of these but these zip zip zip connectors they get damaged really easy especially when you're trying to squeeze in you know the bigger bigger transistors tip 35s they're not gonna have it and that was a pain in the book for me because I was doing a lot of stuff with tip 35 basically you know the little slayer coils and whatever and it is good to have a bit of a meter that works this one I believe there's another one it may not be it may just be a size it's a clock circuit which is basically a digital you know I build them up just for the experience I've sold and fapping about when I've really made them that was cheap but the reason I bought this was because in order to do the bigger transistors it worked out a lot easier if I just had these little grippers little hook hooks and that makes this fantastic when you put a transistor on to this not only does it show you that's faulty and it gives you a nice little thing I don't know if you can be able to pick this up very well because this cameras rubbish and the lighting is not very good I do I am gonna invest in a better camera very very soon I'm just gonna find some that's cheap but a good picture so this makes this very easy to hook up on to and you're very quickly as you can see that's faulty there's no way that's two resistors but this is faulty I've got through about six of them last week or so just plain different experiments and stuff and normally on a good one it will give you what it is it tells you the beta which is the HFE gives you the pinouts so it's what leads against the watts and it's reasonable on the battery and there you can see that what it says there there you go that's what you get when one's working and it's great for inductors brilliant it's great for resistance it's great for transistors this actually does do quite well there's a couple of problems when they're not problems actually start you from buying it one of the problems is these these clips I tend to sometimes have them hanging over the edge of my bench here and they can catch on and twice I've had to re-solder and it's the middle one this one because this pulls off and it's not very good and so you know there and little bits of this it starts peeling away a little bit in the corner but I'm not gonna worry about that too much because I can just stick that back down again which is pretty much what I'm doing there it's sort of staying where I want it to okay I can accept that so there's that to look out for but if you're quite happy which is resoldering it that's fine the only other thing is and this is crazy because I'm quite stuck to by the sticky tape the only other thing is the battery connector it's one of those nine volt connector things if I can just locate the screwdriver I should have really tidied it up yesterday but I've been working like a early dog and not really had a great deal of time and I keep meaning to do this but I keep forgetting to do it so I just thought oh right just while everything's in chaos what a great time to start doing a little video can I take this off right see if I whip this off yeah you'll see what I mean now normally there wouldn't really be any issues with it and it's great that this you know it's just got one one bit there and and but this is the problem you see the connector it's almost coming apart it's almost you know falling apart itself and sooner or later I'll have to go in here and take it apart but another one I've got spare ones but you know what I have to I have to charge this battery quite a bit um because I use it in other things as well and I know it's not a rechargeable well I just connected it to my power supply and I charge them I do it with all my non-rechargeable batteries they all seem to be rechargeable for some reason but yeah and so that and the fact that the hook clip there can come off when you catch it too many times is the only fault I can find with this thing and for 21 pounds it's low profile it sits out the way in actual fact my uh my little drawer things here it's quite happy I just ship that out the way so I can do a second one there that's what I folded I can just push it across and look how well that stays out the way and it's so easy for me to connect transistor whatever I like and I get my readout nice and easy beautiful so out of all these cheap ones that I found on eBay believe me I got through nearly all of them this one I would say the best I'd say it's the best because you can attach to it nice and easily no more missing around trying to push on to the SMD parts on some of these testers or trying to show a you know the bigger BJTs or MOSFETs into the ZIF connector because you're just going to macro up that connector and if that's the only way you've got connected there now somebody said to me they said why you just put wires in the connector then in the ZIF connector then you know have like a you know snip these up from just to put the wires in I suppose that's one way of doing it that's one way of doing it or you could just buy this those other ones don't have cases this is not a case you can chuck this in your toolbox I'd say take these out first look they're even color coded so not that it matters what color goes in where um but it's just makes it a bit easier to identify when you see it off on the screen there but you can chuck that in your toolbox I've put a bit of blue tap there to stop it from opening up as wide as it goes so when it's sat there it's looking more at me rather than facing upwards because I prefer it like that it's bail is better than why I'm gonna just put these these up because they're caught up it's better than the one on here because this look how easy that goes over I am so frustrated with this for that because I love this this meter is absolutely lovely it's nice and rugged it's nice and for this every in time and that's the downside I can see where this meter apart from it doesn't do um leather pico furries and such which is a little bit I'd have expected a little bit more out of it but I should have read the data sheet and but I do like that don't get me wrong I do like that meter it's great I don't regret buying that at all and I certainly don't regret buying this but I've sent back two of those other ones the other one that I showed you that has a fault it keeps saying it needs to be calibrated but this so far has been absolutely great so if it's 21 pounds from ebay if anyone was thinking about you know is this worth getting or not I'd say yeah they have to go through some abuse with me especially with the Tesla stuff I'm more like Slater excited to cause I haven't I've sort of saw the Tesla quite but I need I need some AC things and I'm not that keen yet I'm just playing with the mains um I don't mind a little bit but I haven't got the confidence just to chop myself an AC Tesla coil together but yeah um if you're thinking about buying one of these like say I've been using it for four months brilliant brilliant hasn't let me down the really thing I could just call it again then pulling it up is that my table has this thing where it wants to catch hold of these and try and pull the ends off but like I say if you don't have a table like mine which is just trying to cause me trouble um and if you don't mind solving that one if they do come off it's all good they fit nice and snug they don't just fall out or you know go wandering off um yeah thumbs up thumbs up for that being so cheap and so versatile and it's in a case cheers for watching see you later guys