This paper gives a description of measurement technique which can be used in practice of carrying out estimation of electrical capacitance of tested object with substantial stray inductance. Electrical capacitance is determined as a ratio of mean value of discharge current to the mean value of time derivative, taken from voltage on unknown capacitance. The decreasing of deleterious impact of stray inductance on accuracy of measurements is achieved by proper selection of the duration of analyzed signals. In proposed technique the duration is limited by instants of time that correspond to the maximum value of discharge current and to the termination of transient. The accuracy of described method for electrical capacitance estimation is affected by noisy components of obtained oscillograms. This deleterious impact can be alleviated by smoothing of time dependence by applying of least square method. Another reason for lost of accuracy is associated with possible influence of skin-effect in conductive elements of discharge circuit, which can cause time dependence of resistance and inner inductance of  conductive parts of tested object and discharge circuit. Described technique, however, is based on taking into consideration independent on time parameters of equivalent lamped discharge circuit. Nevertheless, the example of practical implementation has shown that described approach allows to partially mitigate the influence of stray inductance on carried out measurements of electrical capacitance, as the value of relative error turned out to be equal to 2.04%

The article provides an overview of the most common methods for monitoring the technical state of electrical insulation, based on the applying of absorption phenomena arising in dielectric materials under the influence of DC voltage. The main provisions of the control method based on determining the voltage at the electrodes of the investigated capacitive control object, which is recovering after a short-term discharge of its capacity, are described. The main aspects of the application of the polarization index and the absorption coefficient for determining the technical state of insulation by using the coefficients characterizing the change in time of the current through the dielectric when a constant test voltage is applied to it are analyzed. The advantages of using absorption methods for monitoring the technical state of electrical insulation, first of all, are the ability to carry out testing without the necessity of applying of relatively high test voltages, which greatly simplifies all the necessary technical operations. Such control methods show a significant dependence of the informative parameters used in them on the technical state of insulation on the degree of development of slow polarization processes in the material under study and, therefore, are successfully used to determine the degree of moisture in tested electrical insulation.