capacitance meter

[Seven64]

What is a good capacitance meter?  I am looking for one mainly to spec a big lot of small value <1000pf silver mica caps i bought recently.

[Jdansti]

I'm not an expert on this subject, but I just ordered a capacitance meter kit from Sparkfun for 13.95 USD.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9485

[Thecomedian]

You might be able to find a cheap DMM which can read diodes, caps, resistance, and volts/amps on ebay.I use a Micronta 22-175a true rms DMM and it has all those functions. they're 80$ on eBay last I checked. It's nice to have an all-in-one meter. It also will check BJT transistors for pin-out and gain.

[BluesDisciple]

I don't know if its cheap, but I have a Sperry DM-6600 on my bench that reads capacitance.  Works well.

[CodeMonk]

I bought one of these :
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/capacitance-meter-kit-p-268.html?cPath=63_69

Seems to work pretty well.

[Mich P]

"I bought one of these :
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/capacitance-meter-kit-p-268.html?cPath=63_69

Seems to work pretty well."

Same here. Works great since few years.
Mich P.

[newperson]

check out ESR meters.

[Jdansti]

"I bought one of these :
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/capacitance-meter-kit-p-268.html?cPath=63_69

Seems to work pretty well."

Same here. Works great since few years.
Mich P.

I just looked at the board at seeed and compared it to the one that I ordered for Sparkfun and they're the same. Glad to hear you're pleased with it!  1% accuracy for under $15 (not including enclosure).