Can this be used to test for a continuous circuit?
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If you are asking if it can test for continuity, the answer is yes. It requires a 9volt battery. If you are asking if it can test the voltage of an energized circuit, yes it can.
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Yes I suggest you try a side by side test to make sure. You can contact their website with questions. I believe they make a meter also.
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No, it will not test capacitors in circuit with reliability. When testing in circuit, you do not know whether there are other capacitors in series or parallel with it. It will give you a "Quazi" check, meaning that if it reads your capacitor value correctly, then you now have the problem of telling whether that capacitor is internally ok. This meter will check the value of a capacitor, but it will not check the internal part of a capacitor. There has been times which this meter shows perfect, but when checking with a OHM meter, the capacitor has a internal resistance of 75K instead of infinity. But, if this meter shows a capacitor being off value by a ways, there is a very good chance the capacitor is bad. Remember, there are 3 things that go bad on a capacitor for the most part. 1. Out Value, out of tolerance (This meter will show it). 2. Internal resistance (This meter will show SOME, but not all of this kind of breakdown). 3. Load breakdown (This meter will not show anything on load breakdown).
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If you have a DVM or voltmeter you can run a continuity check on the driver, if it's an open circuit then the response from Christopher J. is, indeed, the correct one.
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1. Yes, you'll need one for each end of the wire you are testing.2. Assuming that the CAT5 tester works the same way (as a continuity tester) then it should work.
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Hi, Nathan: thank you for your kind message. To be honest, the tester is very easy to use: we'd just need to put pins of a component into randomly different groups (group one: socket 1&2, group 2: socket 3, group 3: socket 4&5), and test result will show in seconds in the LCD. With best regards,Kevin
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The 006706-000-000 has not been tested for continuous use until it shorts out. We do not recommend trying it.
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In my opinion, this tester is suitable for detecting good from dead batteries, and that's how I use it. For anything that is not full but has some life left in it, I would treat it as dead and in need of charge.
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yes , it is very easy to read all the voltages, any not with in specs the reading will be in red . I do have the old style tester and bought this one and have been using it ever since. I am keeping my old tester as a back up in case it fails.
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No. If you test it through a powered device like a switch, you may fry the switch, tester or both as the tester is sending a low amp voltage (powered by 9V batery) through each wire in the cable.
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Yes it will test for power as well as continuity just make certain to read the directions to confirm the color and sound that goes with each.
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yes once the circuit is located and turned off, you can verify if the outlet downstream is operable
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Yes/no. It can but that's not how you would do it. Each line at a time would have to be energized ( connected to panel ) then checked individually
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It test the polarity etc. of a regular receptacle. It does not trip the breaker in the panel that feeds the receptacle. Hope this answers your question.
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Yes. This converter will work for that & many other things. I use it frequently. Super handy for testing other DC gadgets without having to go to your car as well.
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I used it as a DC test not AC. I tested it with an Oscope and found it peaked the circuit so it would work for what I bought it for. I was afraid of burning up the iunits next to what I was testing so I have very little time with it.
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In my opinion, no. Unless you know the exact circuit configuration and can definitely rule out parallel impedance or nonlinear components around the cap. There is quite a bit of info online about the tester and the signals used to execute the tests if you google around. Here is one example. It is in German but google will translate for you: http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/AVR_Transistortester . There is more if you look. I, myself, do not use this device for in-circuit testing.