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About Dave Nyce
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I have been an electronics engineer for 25 years. I can answer questions on analog and digital circuits and my specialty is sensors.

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I am the inventor on 23 US patents, and also some foreign ones. Developed sensors for over 25 years. Licensed private pilot (airplane and rotorcraft), have HAM radio license. I'm not an expert in computer networking.
 
   

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Electrical Engineering - capacitors


Expert: Dave Nyce - 5/17/2003

Question
If I measure a capacitor with a ohmmeter and it reads 100ohms, what will this tell me about the capacitor?  

Answer
If a non-polarized capacitor reads a steady resistance, it is defective. If the capacitor is electrolytic, it may read a resistance in one direction of lead connection, but should count up until reading a megohm reading after a few seconds when you reverse the leads. This can not be used to determine the amount of capacitance.

Hope this helps!

Dave

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