I was slightly peeved to hear today that my order for some surface mounts
caps will only arrive somewhere in September.

Im looking for 27-33pf caps, yea you guessed it, for the resonator.

i have millions of computer circuitboards of various flavours and thought i
might be able to scavange some caps off them for now anyway. Thing is i dont
have a cap meter.

Does anyone have a quick and dirty way of finding out a cap's value without
a suitable lc(r) meter??

i thought of doing an rc network and then using a pic to time it and work
out the value, but im no circuit designer and dont quite know what to do.

Anyone have any ideas for me?

Regards
   John

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