How To Use Multimeter To Check Capacitor. How to Check Capacitors in Circuit Using a Multimeter. Visually inspect the capacitor.
The video demonstrates several ways to check a capacitor using a digital and analog multimeters and an LCR meterWe usedUNI-T UT33C Pocket Digital Multimete. While using this multimeter to test capacitors you would make use of the Ohms function. This is one of the more advanced features but you will see it is very simple.
Choose the capacitance mode on your digital multimeter.
You can always check if a capacitor has been discharged with a multimeter. If you check a DC capacitor set the meters dial settings to the DC setting. Check the reading of your multimeter. If the capacitor is used in an ac circuit set the multimeter to measure ac voltage.
