Terri: I'm not sure what your "cost effective" $ budget is but Fluke makes both a model 11 and a model 110. They will do capacitance along with a variety of other features but without a lot of "bells and whistles" for under $100. They are also available with mini or micro probes. The 110 is an especially sweet little meter for the price and performance. Regards Michael Barmuta -----Original Message----- From: Houston, Terri [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Looking for a capacitance meter Hi Folks, I'm searching for a "cost effective" capacitance meter to use for measuring chip capacitors. Seems the low-end designs have probes that won't work well with small size parts, and the high-end models have more bells and whistles than we need. I'm just looking for something to verify cap values for parts that become separated from their labeled bags. If you could offer any advice on models that would fit the bill, I'd appreciate your input. Thanks, Terri ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------