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LeakSeeker82B

So you've got a leaky component bringing down a power supply bus and you don't know where the short is because your ohmmeter shows 3.6 ohms everywhere and the supply feeds seven PCBs.These PCBs are filled with 4 million parts and you really don't want to start hacking up traces or unsoldering and checking each and every part until you find the leaky one.This will take hours, maybe even days and time is money and making any money in this business is hard enough. $179.00 .
This is where LeakSeeker comes to the rescue,Simply touch LeakSeeker's probe anywhere on the PCB foil that shows a low resistance (from zero to 150 ohms) and LeakSeeker automatically calibrates itself to the resistance of the defect. Touch a pad in one direction or the other and LeakSeeker beeps higher or lower and lights the LED distance scale to show you if you're getting closer or further from the defect. LeakSeeker automatically re-calibrates itself as you get closer, or switch to the high-resolution manual mode and locate the defect within a quarter of an inch. LeakSeeker uses the PCB foil resistance as a reference to locate the leaky part. (You would need a six digit DVM ohmmeter with a one-milliohm resolution to do the same thing). The Solder pad where the beep is highest is the location of the defect!
There is also a special 3-wire test mode to locate thermally defective leaky components, even in a sea of large electrolytics that try to muddy up your readings. Imagine a piece of test equipment that can find a leaky capacitor only a quarter of an inch from a good one, both soldered to the same bus, you have a good idea how much time LeakSeeker can save you.  
LeakSeeker comes with a special set of gold-plated test clips and probes, a complete manual with a hands on tutorial,and a technical assistance phone line.
 
 
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