'Megger' (Not) Insulation tester - good buy?

[Refugee]

I can only say that I am more than happy with mine, and consider it money well spent.

Simple to use, it 'does what it says on the tin'.

It's easy to forget though that if you test a good capacitor at 1000v, the capacitor can 'bite' for quite a long time afterwards! So if you want to check the capacitance as well as the leakage, do that first, or you might otherwise destroy whatever bit of kit you are measuring capacitance with!

Andy

I just connect a volt meter across capacitors after testing and watch them discharge. A 20k/volt model can be used if you are in a hurry.