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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]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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.
>
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