Page 56 - Testing Electronic Components

Coil or inductor can be test using an analogue, inductance or a coil
meter such as the dick smith flyback tester. A coil that is small in
size, I would usually just test it with analogue meter and you
could check it on board too. Set your analogue meter to X1 ohm
and place the probes across the small coil.

The meter should show some reading (or continuity) and this
proved that the coil winding is okay. Small coils seldom spoilt
because it have less winding compares to big coils where it could
have many turns of winding and chances for it to go shorted
(between windings) is very high.

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