Generally, yes. I would imagine it depends on the meter; I don't know such things enough to know which kind is commoner. I would tend to be paranoid about it, so either I would charge the cap up directly and then disconnect it and reconnect it through the meter, or I would hook an SPST in parallel with the meter and make sure it's closed at initial power-up. Alternatively, I'd use something like a 1 ohm 1 watt resistor in series and then hook a DMM set to voltage across that. But if the leakage is down in the microamp range, that may work poorly to not at all (though something like that is what current ranges tend to actually be implemented as, AIUI). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B