Guy,

Also the drive system of many test instruments is insufficient for high value MLCC parts.  Attached is an HP instrument pdf outlining it and covering their test instrument.

It could be that too.



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Subject: [TN] capacitor measurement

I got pulled into a Receiving Inspection problem. Our test instrument, an old HP 4192A impedance meter, and a newer Instek 6020 tell us that our X5R capacitors are out of spec.
A 100uF, 10%, 6.3V capacitor measures between 25% and 30% below the nominal value.  The instruments have Kelvin probes and are zero calibrated at frequrency, 120Hz the test waveform is 500mV rms.
Does anyone have any advise?