Honeytek A6013L Capacitor Tester

This is a worthwhile purchase if you want to really check a capacitor out and not guess if it’s good or bad. You can’t beat it for the price and even has the battery installed. Very accurate.

I like the size and how easy it is to use.Works well and Great price.

I bought this to check capacitors quickly, even though I have several other meters such as a Fluke 289, Reed R5001, Extech and etc., I thought it would be a nice addition to my tools for the cost. I was a bit skeptical at first for 25 bucks. I received the item, and it appeared to be well packaged and in good shape. I opened the box and found a meter, pair of short leads and a single sheet of paper with copied instructions in the ever so popular chinese interpretation of english which is sometimes very comical and other times frustrating. The case was cheap plastic and had a rubberized orange jacket around it with a flip out kick stand in the back. The unit came installed with a battery as do most test equipment now. There are three ports for probes at the bottom, the two outer ports seem to be identical, and it does not appear to make a difference which one you plug into to. They are both labeled the same, and in the instruction sheet they are both numbered the same. Not sure why you would need two identical ports but I guess it is nice to have a backup or maybe use two different style probes at the same time.After plugging in the probes and turning the unit on I found a crisp LCD screen with a rather bright backlight which is nice. The white light will fade as it times out which is a nice touch. I proceeded to test some know capacitor values, electrolytes, foil, etc. All values seemed to be within tolerances, but I did find that the meters tolerance varies a bit when you get into the pF capacitors. Also, keep in mind that the probes lead add about 20 pF to the meter so you either need to zero out the display or subtract that from your measured value which is no big deal. Measured values in all ranges except the really high pF capacities seemed to be within 5% of the Fluke 289 measured values with the exception of a 10% margin of difference in very small capacitance values compared to the Fluke 289. What this comes down to is, this meter is a great value for 25 bucks! It is not lab precision but I would not expect it to be for the cost. For 25 bucks, you get a down and dirty quick way to measure and test capacitors in a small lightweight case that can easily be thrown in your toolbox or bag to take along. And at 25 bucks, the fear of damage, loss or theft is minimal. I would recommend this meter to anyone that is in need of a budget capacitor tester that appears to be fairly accurate across most of its range.​

use it to measure the capcitance of the start/run cap on my AC system. Works great and much cheaper to use this and buy the cap online rather than to call a service tech.

this is very handy compositor test. It works great

The unit arrived with a dead battery. After installing a new one, the unit would not power off and drained another battery.

After receiving this item and using it to measure some fixed and variable capacitors I was using for some RF design - all in the picofarad (pf) ranges - I was amazed that it was as accurate as it was. Yes, it can be touchy to achieve a "perfect zero" with the goofy little screwdriver-slot pot, but how much accuracy do you really need? Fixed capacitors come in standard values and are separated in value by a sufficient margin that I cannot imagine anyone "mistaking" the value of a capacitor based on any error displayed by this meter. A ceramic capacitor marked "68pf" displayed as 69.6pf, an error of only 2.3%; since most capacitors are rated at 5%, 10%, or 20%, this little meter is VERY accurate, in my view. And remember, this is not a piece of "laboratory standard" equipment, it is a simple measurement tool that lets the engineer or technician know if the components they test are "in the right ballpark". Given the price point, I think this meter is a gem! BTW, I'm a retired EE who had 20 years of technician experience before "moving up" into RF & digital electronics design engineering for the next 25 years.

It is difficult to get readings easily. I made an adapter using YEGAFE 2Pcs 14Pin 2.54mm ZIF Zip IC Test DIP Board Socket Universal Gold Plated. after the zero calibration, it works great.