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Quote: Does everyone, (apart from me), have a multimeter? Confused |  Why has no-one told me! I'm, obviously, going to get right on it. Ebay or Amazon?
I feel, somehow, that another one of life's opportunities has passed me by.
**Raises hand - I've got a few multimeters, a 'scope and a signal generator/logic analyser. Of course, I was pure embedded dev for 15 years or so, so there's that.
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Nah, never found a need for one - you are not alone.
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Just for checking fuses with the ohm meter is worth it.
I have a garage door opener that is out of support and to replace it would require a total rebuild of springs, etc. plus the cost of the new opener.
It had a well designed control board that needed 2 pop-in fuses replaced. $10 versus $400 dollars.
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take notes here
diligent hands rule....
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Any self-respecting person would have one and an oscilloscope if you ask me, the more probes the better.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Hardware stores sell multimeters now. Big box home center stores too.
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Why buy a multimeter? Surely one would have done the job.
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I have a temp probe (thermocouple) for mine, handy for beer making.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I have a digital thermometer - does that count?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It must show temp in both F and C to count as multi. Or include humidity
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How about kelvin?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ok
Kelvin and Rankin would count as “multi” or Kelvin and C, but if you can’t add 273 in your head, you would not be on this board.
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Hi,
I love multi meters. I learned how to use an old Simpson in the Air Force when there was no such thing as autorainge... LOL
Now I have a talking meter with a nice female voice. I never knew how freeing is a talking meter till I went blind.
thanks for sharing...
chuck
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I used to work for John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. who make the voltmeters most of you have in your toolbox. I have a hardmodel (manufacturing sample) Fluke 77 meter (which has since become the Flue 73 to make room for a unit with more features. This meter still has the same batteries in it as when it was new, and the same test leads.
Interestingly enough, Fluke was bought by the giant conglomerate Danaher Corp., who made the durable test leads for Fluke meters. Tektronix, makers of the oscilloscope you probably have on your bench, was also bought by Danaher and folded into Fluke, so these two one-time competitors are now divisions of the same company.
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I've always had a multimeter (VOM). Simpson was the best of the best 50 years ago.
I keep one in each of my tool boxes, my desks, and my workbench.
Oddly, one of the best I ever bought was a little Radio Shack multimeter that fit nicely in my briefcase and I could take it anywhere, until 9/11. I lost it somewhere about 10 years ago and have never found one that worked as well.
I have Fluke and several other digital units but they just don't have the same old feel of the Simpson.
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Heh, yeah, I bought a multi-meter for my PC tech support tool kit then never used it for that. I have however used it to test suspected components on my own system and for testing power supplies for various other devices.
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Was Einstein's DJ name MC Squared?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm sure he Newton's of good cuts and unified them, so give him his due Prof's.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Maybe, perhaps he was a relative.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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And his greatest hits include:
Old Mc'Newton had some rules
and
Quantum time?
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He also started a band called Subluminal. The members of the band were known as Tardyons. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Water is heavier than butane because butane is a lighter fluid.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
modified 14-Jul-21 10:29am.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Water is heavier than water ...
Which means water is also lighter than water. It simultaneously weighs nothing and accounts for all mass in the universe. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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