BLUE ESR CAPACITOR TESTER METER COMPLETE ASSEMBLY - START TO FINISH ALLTRONICS ANATEK BOB PARKER
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- This is the BLUE ESR CAPACITOR TESTER I have recommended sight unseen. I thought it was time to get one for myself. I opted for the self assembly kit, and a couple of hours later and it is ready. My initial impression, is its really good, much faster readings than the analog ESR meter that I have. Also simple zero of the display is a big plus. It also does very low (non inductive) resistance measurements down to .01 ohm resolution.
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00:00 Intro
00:13 Unpacking and inventory
01:23 Instructions and documentation
03:17 A look at the circuit board
04:43 Installing 1% resistors
05:02 Installing 5% resistors
06:53 Installing semiconductors
08:11 Installing capacitors
08:57 Installing pots and tact switch
09:05 Testing for 5 volts before installing IC's
09:31 Installing LED's
09:57 Installing IC's
10:13 Installing test leads
10:49 Calibration and initial tests
12:47 Low battery calibration
13:47 Putting it all in the case
14:19 All assembled, testing some caps
15:11 Final thoughts - Věda a technologie
At 1:30 it's nice to hear you mention our Famous Dick Smith...he started his company with the slogan..."The Electronic Dick" . Fact.
Cheers from sunny Australia.
Thanks for All your videos
I have the original Electronics Australia meter kit I built many years ago and use it every time I fix something here in Australia. It’s a very useful meter.
It's amazing how many of the original "EA" meters are still in use, 26 years after it was designed!
Nice , love my blue ESR. I have the new Blue2 and I love it will never go back.. You will not be disappointed.
Built one of these several years ago and it works like a charm.
I've had mine for a few years, I love it. It has saved me numerous hours of time.
Pretty neat little kit and handy tool. Enjoyed the video of your build. Pretty cool stuff.
I bought that kit also. Love it.
Brilliant it looks great thank you
Hi, I recently received my Blue ESR meter, and I use your video as guide to assembly, in fact I buy it because I see you using it, I think is a very good tool. Thanks for all your videos. I have been learning so much from you. Regards.
Oh i like this kit and have ordered one good video
thanks for the review.excelent
Cute build. I'll probably want to do the same so I could get started on hobby repairs
Cool , I need to get one
I just finished building one for myself. I didn't even have to adjust it when done! Perfect 82 Ohms and 5.6 Ohms. I've been wanting an ESR meter since I saw you using your old one in so many videos.
Thanks for the review, I've seen other positive reviews about this tester too.
I have the Independence Electronics version that is analog and it serves me well. Thanks for the video.
Love mine. The only thing I don't like are the leads. Probably going to rig up some Probe Master leads to it.
Thanks for the review. 👍👍👍
Anytime Bob, Love the Blue ESR tester. You will see it in many of my current, and future videos.
@@norcal715 Thanks Steve. It gives me a certain amount of satisfaction to see that when someone with soldering skills and technical knowledge assembles one of the kits, it all goes together without any problems. I wish it was always like that!
Ironically I just ordered mine an hour before you posted this video! I opted for the $18 assembled price. Now I wish I had purchased the kit. You work makes it seem so obtainable and worthy of trying on my own!! Thanks for the great work.
$18 dollars ?
@@ddlc7022 $18 extra cost for assembled kit. $80 vs $98
I have that one. It is a good one
I also got the blue ring tester
I got the same one
For the calibration we need measure the resistor using fluke DMM if exactly 82 ohms before measure to esr and adjust, ohms range to exactly in esr calibration
I didn't know that there was an Alltronics in the US? I thought that they were an Australian outfit? I wonder if they are the same thing?
It's a great piece of retro tech, but ESR just isn't enough for capacitor testing!
The ultimate tool is an LCR Bridge which is currently available on eBay, I got mine for $95Au after watching a video on it over at XRayTonyB's channel, it gives a reading for capacity, ESR, disapation, Quality factor and phase angle!
If you need to know exactly everything about capacitors, inductors and resistors... Then this is the best tool! I swear by it and highly recommend it! The one that Tony got is in a silver aluminium case, I got the newer version which has a built-in lithium rechargeable battery via USB C and it's in a black case with a blue screen instead of the lime green on the older one, both are good!
Once you watch Tony's video, you will want one! I had been watching it for years but held off from buying it because it looked complicated with all the information displayed on it's screen but once I saw it in Tony's video, it was kinda like a how to use video, I realized that it's super easy to use and jumped out to get one as fast as I could!
This LCR Bridge will replace your new ESR meter as soon as it shows up! It really is that good! It truly deserves much more awareness. If you are serious about knowing everything about a capacitor, inductor or resistor... Then you need this!
Agree, after watching Tony's vid I ordered one. Glad I spent time researching what would be best for audio equipment restorations.
Steve, I bought a digital esr, it not the blue Anatek, but, I'll tell you, I like my analog version better, maybe the digital one I have isn't as good as the blue ones.....I believe they all send a 100k htz signal through, so hopefully you'll do some videos on the accuracy of these blue esr meters.
If they work well, I may do a kit myself.
We'll be awaiting results..😉
I have the same tester, just with a red display and a different cheap box. The box is pure JUNK and i hate it with every cell in my body. This looks so neat and usable. I should design and 3D-print a box for mine, i think.
Couldn't you have checked the caps at the end of the vid with your analog as well to see the higher accuracy differences? I would have been interested in seeing the difference myself. And only years since your last kit build? :)
I have had "Ol Blue" in my shopping cart for a while along with the MESR-100 V2 and been waiting for a quality review on YT to show how well either work with in circuit testing. If you could show a side by side comparison of your MUL3333 vs Blue, I would be ever so grateful. For the record I know you like to remove one lead, but if you could entertain a true in-circuit test just for giggles, it would be interesting to see if the results are similar between both meters.
hoped for a more in depth performance testing with various good and known-bad capacitors
You should measure all the caps that came with the kit before installing them. When i bought mine i chossed the fully assembled version and i wanted to test the capacitors inside the meter to see their esr and to my surprise i found one having 25 ohms. The crappy chinese capacitors were chong cd11x and chang brand.I was expecting that they put quality caps like rubycon , nichicon etc, but i was wrong. Made in USA but with crappy chinese caps. I was very disappointed that didn't came with good japanese made caps.😢😢😢
Can you change the probes for normal multimeter ones? Any adapters? I think in some of your recent video's you are using normal pointy probes with that ESR meter.
Just wonder what brand of test leads you are using? I just built the kit and I don't like the test leads that came with the kit. Thanks
They are Keysight technology probes. I used standard test lead to the supplied banana plugs that plug in the the replacement test leads. www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Keysight/U1169A?qs=YCa%2FAAYMW00oL5wtpCD3GA%3D%3D
Thanks for the quick response on my question. I built the esr kit because of your video. I have a capacitor wizard and like it alot but the blue esr gives you a reading where the capacitor wizard say to compare.
Thanks for making video's of your repairs , I find them educational.
I would rather use your analog meter what kind is it ?
Where did you get the test probes you are using with your Blue ERS meter ?
They are Keysight Technologies test leads model U1169A www.keysight.com/us/en/product/U1169A/test-probe-leads-with-19-mm-tips-and-4-mm-tips.html
@@norcal715 Thank you for the speedy reply. And if course, the great videos. As a Chevy dealer mechanic, I find your diagnostic strategy impressive, with your explanation why you did what you did.
Why did you skip using the IC sockets? Those are kinda important for heat sensitive ICs.
Unless it is a high failure rate IC then I typically don't use sockets. I have been hand soldering IC's since the early 80's.
where to order this?
Fully assembled here: anatekinstruments.com/products/fully-assembled-anatek-blue-esr-meter-besr They seem to be out of stock on the self assembled version.
The chart is hard to understand
I have a chart that I use but can't post a link. you tube wont allow it :(
@@mixinginthebox ok I need it
@@leonjohnsonjr3331 Check your you tube discussion tab.
That chart was the idea of an engineer and no one has ever told me they like it. I hope this link to a .pdf version of the Dick Smith Mk2 ESR meter's front panel chart will work: bobparker.net.au/esr_meter/2003esrchart.pdf
Mines was already assembly I had to pay extra money
Mine too, but it works great : )
That's all good but unfortunately it's not a very useful tool. It only read's the ESR, no capacity, no disapation, no Quality factor and no phase angle... There's a good Video on XRayTonyB's channel on such a LCR Bridge Meter which is available on eBay, you will never use any other tool for capacitor testing, that's how good it is... Trust me, ESR is not enough!
Just imagine, all the information displayed at the same time on one screen! No need for multiple tools.. and it's just as easy to use as these things! Just search for LCR Bridge on eBay, there's a silver aluminium case version with a lime green LCD screen, and s new version in black aluminium case with a blue screen and a built-in rechargeable battery via USB C... If you are not using this, then you really don't know what the capacitor condition is in, an ESR tester can't tell you! There's many capacitor failure modes and you need to see them all at the same time... You won't regret it, best tool that you have ever spent money on!
@@ZilogBob and this is exactly the reason why people whom have had equipment repaired by a technician would have had a bad experience and would rather throw it out than have it repaired!
Sure, some things should be thrown out, they shouldn't have been made in the first place! But junk electronics is another topic altogether...
I don't want to be known as that person who is only interested in a quick dollar and for that reason I won't work on junk electronics!
If you have come to me for repairs, you are going to get a repair for that device that you will not need to have it looked at again for the next 20 to 30 years! I always try to do my best to restore it unless the customer is only interested in retrieving data or something personal from the device and it can be then recycled...
Put it in this perspective, if you have something that you consider to be valuable to you for whatever reason! You know that after I have finished with it, it's not going to come back to me next month or year! I'm not interested in getting your equipment working for a short time! Especially if it has been working for the last 30+ years!
And yeah it costs more, but not that much more. Once you get into the habit, you would be surprised at how quick it is when you have it down pat! But I have a thorough understanding of components and their failure modes... So I know where it went wrong and why it went wrong and where it's going to go wrong next if I only just get it working... But that's just me and I always have a lot of work!
An ESR meter is almost useless, you are not saving any time by testing in circuit... Failure of components is mainly due to a capacitor that is leaking DC current! And if there's one, there's always more! And unfortunately the only way to check is to remove capacitors out of circuit and test... A good LCR Bridge Meter will be able to tell you if you should replace the same capacitor or replace with a new one!..
Everyone talks about ESR but it seems that no one has ever tried to place a resistor in series with a capacitor to see what happens and then do the same with a resistor in parallel and watch how quickly transistors let out the magic smoke! But if all you ever do is replace the burnt bit and send it back, your concern about earning money will grow as you don't constantly get repeat customers, hmmm I wonder why?..
@@ZilogBob everyone has a background....
The original is far better than this pike of junk. I hate mine.