MEC100: the best device for Capacitor and ESR, 2 in one. An underrated tool.

This amazing device is cheap, and very usefull. A very low price for a unterrated tool. Checking capacitor and ESR on board is absolutely possible with this device.
After the video, differents capacitors was checked before and after being conneted, or disconnected, and results was just FINE.

[@jdecouverte2752]

Les vidéos sur cet appareil sont rares. J’ai Le Mec 100 depuis 2 ans. Et comme vous, je suis très satisfait. C’est vraiment un outil indispensable, surtout pour le dépannage électronique. Merci pour cette vidéo bien intéressante.👍 +1 abt

[@AIexanderHartdegen]

content que la vidéo vous plaise. C'est un très bon appareil, il nécessite toutefois une petite modification: il faut souder un pont entre les deux machoires de chaque pince, le moindre mauvais contact engendre des mauvaises lectures, et le besoin de pince kelvin n'est pas indispensable sur une distance de quelques centimètres. La rareté des vidéos sur cet appareil est une des raisons pour laquelle j'en ai fait quelques unes. Merci pour votre commentaire.

[@guateque1718]

I couldn't get the Mec100 in my part of the world but I did get an Mf470 by a company called Alignimals. It uses exactly the same case and buttons as the mec100 and several other similar meters. The Mf470 gives the esr, capacitance value and the % difference to the nearest standard capacitor value. It does not have Kelvin leads like the Mec100 though. I wonder how much difference there is between these two devices. Thanks for the review.

[@AIexanderHartdegen]

@guateque1718 hi. Apparently there is no much difference between them. the Mf470 has abilities to measure very high value, for who need it, like many farads in capacitors. But it can also measure very low capacitance. That's a kind of beasty. MEC100 is not so powerfull, even if it uses kelvin clip. Kelvin clip can be used to (supposedly) give better result for ESR and so on). But who cares about so short probe. I think they are quite similar. Kelvin clip for those kind of measurement are useless at my sens. Mf470 seems to have a really specific use for big capacitors measurements. It seems to not suffer from a lack of something... A least I didn't see what. Thanks for commenting.