PEAKAtlas LCR45 LCR and Impedance Meter

Auto function works well. Accuracy is good. Comes with a spare (12 volt) battery and instructions.

Many components are hard to read or they have no value markings. Also, I'm color blind. So, I use this to check almost every resistor and capacitor I use. It is indispensable.

I love this unit. I auto-measures inductance, capacitance and resistance. Just turn it on (in default auto range mode) and it measures the value for you. It also has many other custom settings. I have used it many times to measure inductance of my salvaged coils, which is not that easy to do without an LCR meter.Thank you from US to our smart friends in the UK. Being an Anglophile I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was built there.

So I may be dating myself but I started using LC meters with the Tek 130 and have used a lot since. Most got confused by resistance present in reactance to some extent. I resisted springing for this cause it seemed a lot for a little box. But it does good work. Resolves reactance and resistance and reports on them both. Doesn’t lose its mind in the pf realm. Wish I had one ages ago instead of the tek but I do miss the funny whine it made homing in on a value.

Love it! Compact and accurate. A staple in my electronic tool box, largely used for measuring inductances in coils for speaker cross overs. Also used for capacitance measurement all around. This unit is difficult to find in the US. Excellent addition to my electroincs tools covering what I need that is not on my multimeter.

Versatile- sometimes does not correctly identify type of component. Battery life not that long.

I already had the LCR40, which is fine to check nominal values but I got the LCR45 for RF work. It provides complex impedance data and works at higher frequency than other handheld units. The user interface is improved as now it also stays in mesurement mode for a while when LCR40 requires pressing the button each time.It makes sorting a batch of caps for tolerance much quicker.

Working with some RF circuits, this has been the most useful tool I've acquired in many years. I checked it against some known values and was very pleased with its accuracy. Great tool!