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JY6013 Auto Range Digital Capacitor Capacitance Tester
By Jestine Yong on January 9, 2012
While browsing the ebay website i found this unique capacitor tester. It was the JY6013 digital capacitance tester that is auto range. I’m using TES1500 Digital capacitance meter which is not auto range and every time when i want to test a capacitor i have to select the right range. With the Auto Range feature just like the Digital multimeter that have auto ranging, this can speed up or simplify the result. You do not need to select the capacitance range and just directly read the test result from the LCD. The capacitance range that it can test is quite wide. I’m not sure about the quality and if you already have one in your test bench i would like to hear from your review-thanks. Please click on the photo to check out the details.
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Juan
July 7, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I purchased one of those testers and received it last week.
To me it is good enough. I was able to test ceramic capacitors in pico farad range with it.
The 6pf capacitors reading was 17 or 18pf on different capacitors.
The 30pf capacitors were around 32 to 33pf
The electrolytic capacitors also tested good.
I test the same capacitor about 5 times and I get the same reading so it does not change reading like other testers. For me it is good enough to give me an idea of the condition of the capacitors.
Juan
July 7, 2012 at 5:05 pm
I forgot to include this:
With this tester you can test the electrolytic capacitors without setting the meter to (ZERO) and the reading will be good.
When testing ceramic capacitors in pico farad range, you must set the tester to (ZERO) first to get good readings. If you don't set the tester to ZERO, the reading will not be correct.
Juan
July 7, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Sorry! I made a mistake in my first comment.
The 6pf ceramic capacitors readings were around 7 or 8pf on different capacitors
The 15pf capacitors read around 17 or 18pf on different capacitors
I think I am drinking too much coffee - not good for me
Jestine Yong
July 7, 2012 at 7:57 pm
Hi Juan,
Thanks for the review. Guess I will be ordering one soon.
Jestine
Jerry B. Balbin
July 16, 2012 at 1:07 am
Sir,
i have a question, is JY6013 and M6013 are different? because the model you refer is JY6013 but in the picture the model is M6013? and they have also different price, the JY6013 is $34 and the M6013 is $27. which is much better the JY6013 or M6013?
Thank You.
Jerry B. Balbin
Jestine Yong
July 16, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Hi Jerry,
Actually I have seen the marking as M6013 but all the ebay seller named it as JY6013. I just ordered one few days ago and hope to get it by this week. Do you have the link for the JY6013 and the M6013 pricing?
Jestine
Jerry B. Balbin
July 17, 2012 at 12:18 am
the model is only 6013, but the marking in the pictuce is m6013. here is the. site.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/6013-Capacitor-Capacitance-Tester-Meter-0-01pF-to-47mF-/180717101355?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1394212b
Jestine Yong
July 17, 2012 at 12:28 am
Hi Jerry,
I believe is the same between the JY6013 and M6013. The difference in prices mainly because there are few sellers in ebay. I ordered the one also marked as M6013 but the order form was J6013.
Jestine
Jon
August 24, 2013 at 9:43 am
This does not measure caps on circuit.
Jestine Yong
August 24, 2013 at 10:55 am
Hi Jon,
It is to test cap off circuit.
Jestine
Frankcw
May 2, 2014 at 1:08 am
I've owned one of these for about 2 years. I have fixed a couple dozen lcd monitors, several TVs and motherboards with it. It will test for bad caps in circuit as long as they are not banked together. I looked at building my own ESR meter but bought this one, it was cheaper and easier. I've been very happy with the meter. I did buy the tweezer type probes for it and that makes it a lot easier to test caps both in or out of circuit.
Frank
Jestine Yong
May 2, 2014 at 5:23 pm
Hi Frankcw,
Thanks for your sharing. But having an ESR meter would be an added advantage because many e-caps fail but the capacitance still check good.
Jestine
Frankcw
June 27, 2014 at 8:47 am
I was mistaken when I wrote my review. I didn't have my meter in front of me, Mine IS an Esr meter in the exact case as this capacitance meter. My Esr meter has the charts on the front otherwise looks identical. My model is a MESR-100. I would Not use a capacitance meter to test caps in circuit but an ESR meter works fine testing them in circuit.
Frank