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How best can one test a capacitor or a transistor in a circuit to determine whether it's good or bad?
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A: Using an multimeter someone could certify the loss of voltage at a node. someone could check for dead shorts. but other then that any reading someone gets it tells not how good or how bad the circuit is.
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