 hello everyone welcome back to my channel now I've been looking around I was just looking around ESR meters and LCR meters and I came across excuse me I came across an advert on Amazon for this meter now what struck me first was how expensive it was I mean it says it's 18% off and it's 94 pounds that's British pounds you know I don't know if there are actually any other pounds but we're not talking weight over talking money 94 pounds there's no way I would have spent that amount of money on this meter now it does have its perks that you can measure in-circuit with this which is good because that means you don't have to go through your capacitors taking them out measuring what which you do with this or you do with this but it is advertised as a LCR meter as well which means it's trying to say that it can measure inductance capacitance and resistance where it can't if you look on the advert here you'll see it says the ESR LCR and the measurement type LCR meter which I think for new people getting into this and you're trying to find a meter on the cheap side you probably won't you don't want to buy this from this particular seller not because there's nothing wrong with the seller it's just that you will you should find this cheaper I have noticed that even this one I bought this this was I think it was like 19 pound or 21 pound and now I see them all around the place for 50 pounds I think it's because if they become popular the sellers decided to put the price up I'm not sure I don't know but there's a big difference between these meters anyway and even though this isn't going to go through a whole work through of the different meters I'm gonna tell you now that this will work as that LCR meter and this you'll be able to measure inductance with you'll be able to measure your capacitance you have some resistance and also what I bought it for was transistors you know this is my just quick fix on transistors does it work what is it rather than looking up the datasheet sometimes you know but definitely does it work so that's what I got this for now these are all fine when you press it on you don't have to wait any sort of time for a warm-up which most things you do it's only saying damaged or unknown part because there's nothing in the in the leads when you get one of these it comes with horrible wire leads you know the hard wire leads I put my own silicon wires on these because I prefer the silicon it's just I just think it feels nicer this I did notice that sometimes when you try to get to some smaller capacitors on a circuit board you might be trying to work very close together so here's a little tip if you get into that you can take a capacitors just cut off part of the lead there and if I just one I've got on the bench here I just grab all of this if I can you can just pop it into the end and now you've got yourself a little pointy pray bit and you put one in that end and you can get it much closer to take your measurements now one thing I will say about this is it is pretty good at giving you the the readout on here but a lot of it is measured against there's a little chart down here a lot of it is measured against voltages right 25 volts now this is a 50 volt capacitor this is a just a cheap Chinese brand of 50 volt 100 micro farads and it's from yeah can't even make out what that says properly a bit it's a ching ching something yeah and this you should be used polaritized you don't have to do this use any clarity and you don't have to do this meet up either it doesn't matter even though it might show you that there's a priority it doesn't really count doesn't really do anything but what you will get out of this is you will get a satisfactory indication of what you're looking especially for me what I'm looking for normally is if it's a lovey sr and that may indicate it's not too bad on the sr as and it says it's good if there's a capacitor under 330 micro farads which is and the reference is for 25 volts electrolytic capacitor do the e there for electrolytic something else to keep in mind as well now if i just put this on here like i say it doesn't matter about polarization on here and we look at the top there we can see that the sr as it settles where's my little pointy thing the sr as it settles is here and it says it's 0.639 which is higher than what this one would suggest and if we do it again just very quickly with this same capacitor and just pop this on here and look at this one just again it's reading and it's going to be sr there it's showing up 0.53 so i mean they're not over it now but it's not really low sr and let me just show you another capacitor which i hope and i'm pretty sure should show up as being a lower esr remember this is 0.53 on here so it's a capacitor and now we've got a esr here of 0.13 and it's also closer to being 100 micro farads than the other one was if i remember rightly let me just look at that again it was more like 80 this doesn't tell you what the capacitor value is this will tell you what the capacitor value is but this doesn't tell you that it's just going to let you know what the esr is because it's an esr meter the equivalent series resistance and here the capacitor value here is 80.75 micro farads which isn't as close to 100 micro farads is what we might like and if we do the same thing with this again it doesn't know about the polarization and we can look and we can see that the esr is 0.597 and it's 79 again pretty much close to what this was saying at 80 micro farads which if you're looking for 100 micro farads that's not so good but this one having its lower esr of course if we look now we're going to say that this is closer to the 100 micro farads and the esr is 139 milliohms which is pretty good pretty good esr so again it's not showing um it's uh sorry this this one here is not shown in the resistance nub base at the moment this resistance set here you can see that i'll bring this in a bit closer now because i'm going to concentrate on this uh pretty big layer it's set from naught naught to one r so one ohm of resistance i'll just push that out the way for a second it doesn't matter which way i put this round i'm going to put on a resistor of the value of 0.27 ohms and so from there we can see 0.228 it's not bad but if i were to take another resistor a resistor of the value of higher let's just pick this one out for instance doesn't matter which one it is and let's use that one ohm one that's in there um i don't think it is if we were to pull this up he won't measure it and the reason why it won't measure it is we can adjust the range mode and let's go from one to ten r on the resistance on here and we can press the range mode again and go from 10 to 100 r but it's still not picking up this resistor it's still not measuring it and if we were to go to let's just try the range again i sorry i know that it goes back near the way again it goes back all right it's just jumped around a bit but let's just hit it the ones ohm hit it again all right let's hold it in and then do that right so it goes back to zero zero to one r so anything over um it's the fine range it's not going to measure not of course we're going to have a quick look at the resistance of this now on this top meter here we're going to see that that's a one k resistor that's why this couldn't measure it so that's why this can't be an lcr because it doesn't i mean it will make that small amount of resistance but that's for doing it over the capacitance way not across the resistors and i'm pretty sure it's not going to do inductors this does measure inductors this does measure resistors and i'll show you quick on this one k and i would say if you want an lcr that this is a better thing to do the thing like this becomes better in a ways because it will allow you to test in circuit and so that's pretty good for that that's sharing it's a resistor and it's 99 999.0 which is well within it's one percent resistance blah blah what's it called when it's with and it's you know it's defined resistance is a one percent resistor and so it's there it's there my brain's gone all right so yeah we're not even while we're getting to inductors so if you want something to test and you want to find it cheaper don't be spending 50 pound on one of these because you can find them cheaper the same as do not be spending 94 pound on one of these even if there is an 18 percent discount on it from 114 pounds it's never cost the amount of money and yeah for getting into the smaller areas you know it's a bit of a leading from one of your components but if you want you know something you can use on the bench now i bought this it was 70 pounds quite a while ago still works still does its thing and it's also a bridge which means that it's compensating for the resistance of the wires i suppose that's why you can have longer wires on it because it will compensate and you can calibrate and get the wires out short or closed circuit now open circuit or closed circuit so that makes that pretty handy and of course it's not battery driven you can have it on the bench i'm not trying to sell you any of these things i'm not i'm just saying look be careful what it is you're buying when the advertiser is and the sr meter slash lcr meter this is not that but it does beat the others when it comes to measuring in circuit the capacitors which will work out in a lot of instances to be very very handy indeed that's it guys if you watch this far thanks for watching and i'll catch in the next one