John:

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one out their who killed a multi-meter 
through some sort of a stupid human-error type of mistake.

Actually, when I fried my old RAT Shack one by putting the batteries in 
backwards, I wasn't aware of the fact that the batteries needed to be put in 
the way that they were.  What I did was put the negative of the batteries on 
the long metal strip in the meter's battery compartment, which is usually 
the way most battery-operated appliances designate proper  polarity, and it 
turned out that that was actually the "plus" terminal.

Oh well, live and learn, I guess.

You would have thought they would have some sort of diode protection in 
there for that sort of thing, but they obviously didn't.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: butch bussen recommends TALKING DIGITAL MULTI METER WITH 
LIGHTED LEADS to you (fwd)


> It certainly is. I'm on my second one due to knocking the first one off a
> shelf. It never worked after that though I still have it. I can't find
> anything broke or anything, it just has never worked since. My new one is
> kept on a bottom shelf.
>