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Peak Atlas ESR70 Gold or alternative?
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soldermarc:
I'm looking for a simple device for testing electrolytic caps. I already had good experience with the older ESR60 model. It seems the newest version of this device has a bigger range and does measurement faster. There is a backlight and the battery changed from 12V to the very common 1,5V AAA, too.

Now my question is, if I spend 100+ €/$/£ are there better alternatives for simple cap fault finding?

I'm not planning to do measurements for selecting caps or other high accuracy needs.
I liked the simple handling and automatic discharge feature of the ESR60 very much and wonder if there is no alternative which brings a discharge feature. Even at a very high price range... :-// They all only label "..please discharge before..." -> that is no feature (only a stupid sticker).


PushUp:
As long as your ESR60 does measure everything, you don't need anything else! I do have the other models and they are fine, but do not give you any added value, as they measure minimal different, but the direction and conclusion is always the same:





You know our german saying: "Wer viel misst, misst viel Mist!", which cannot be translated into english to be also funny, but it means: "When you measure a lot, you will have a lot of different measurements, which in the end does not help you either - so it is rubbish!"

I like having both values of capacitance & ESR while checking a mainboard, thus you immediately see wheter the caps are in parallel, serial or single, which a simple ESR-value might lead you in a wrong direction, when in serial...





However, if you are also in love with testgear and cannot have enough and wanna spend some money, than go for it!


Cheers!  ;)
soldermarc:
Oh wow, what a nice collection.   8)
I only had the ESR60 at work some years ago... now I'm looking for an esr meter for my private workplace.

Is there already a supply source for the ESR70 Gold in germany?
PushUp:
Not in Germany any more, as the official dealers "reichelt.de" and "ELV.de" probably quit ordering "Atlas Peak Electronic"-testgear after the Brexit, I guess...


But I have ordered the newest models from our neighbours being in Eindhoven "Eleshop.nl" via PayPal (+3% fee) + shipping + extra fee. If you do a short trip to the sea, you could buy it personally, as they seem to have a shop there - but no guarantee.


The webside is NL-only, but you will have no problem to "read" it, they ship via GLS and are very fast - I can recommend them by all means!!!


The calibrated version is more expensive, I ordered the "normal one" and got the blue-ish display with newest FW 6.00:






https://www.eleshop.nl/catalogsearch/result/?q=esr+70+gold



...and don't forget to also buy the stand, which is worth any cent, having always the best view on the display:






https://www.eleshop.nl/3d-geprinte-peak-atlas-houder.html



Cheers!  ;)
Huluvu:
The ESR 70 gold is a very good peace of equipment from Peak which I have also bought from Eleshop some weeks ago. It runs from aaa Nimh which is very great to prevent from leaking  :)
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