Increasing the reliability of electrical equipment in the agricultural and industrial complex based on measuring the electrical capacitance of capacitors

The article presents elaborated technical suggestions for increasing reliability of electrical equipment of agro-industrial complexes. The analysis of the already known ways of measuring electric capacitance is carried out and it demonstrates the necessity of withdrawing a capacitor from a working circuit for sufficient accuracy of determining electric capacitance. The urgency of developing a method for measuring electric capacitance without removing the capacitor from а working circuit to reduce the average recovery time is shown. Theoretical foundation of the possibility to measure electric capacitance without a capacitor being withdrawn from a working circuit in smoothing filter mode is worked out; a structural electric circuit of an electric capacitance measuring device is elaborated and the principle of its operation is described; methods of measurement by means of the given device are elaborated; conditions for creating and maintaining the measurement mode of the device are substantiated. The validity of the received results is checked with the help of the programmed package Mathcad, as well as on electric models of the main blocks of the device. The obtained results can be used to measure electric capacitance of electrolytic capacitors during maintenance and electrical equipment renovation and also can promote its reliability