Testing electrolytic cap ESR with REW?

erileykc

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I've got a pair of speakers with some 25 year old electrolytic caps but no ESR meter. Is there a test configuration that would allow REW to give useful results on these caps?
 
You can do an impedance measurement then fit a component model to get an equivalent circuit. The graph will directly read dissipation factor values at the cursor frequency.

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