[Eliot Ness]

Wakey wakey thread.   Anybody got an opinion on the Capacitor Wizard......

That will only test for ESR (equivalent series resistance) ... useful for troubleshooting modern electronics but not so much for old radios.  You need something that will test capacitor values and leakage at their working voltage (see post #12 in this thread).

That being said there are uses for an ESR type tester and I use one if troubleshooting some modern equipment, but never even think about it on an old radio.  It also depends on how cheap is cheap?  The Capacitor Wizard looks like a good ESR tester, but I get by just fine with my Blue ESR meter that is an $80 kit:

http://anatekinstruments.com/products/an...y-besr_kit