18 Jul
2000
18 Jul
'00
8:54 p.m.
Incidentally, an analogue multimeter can be more use
than a digital one
for some work. It's a lot better at showing trends, indicating when the
amplitude of a signal is peaking, etc. Accuracy is not that important in
most repairs -- certainly +/-5% is easily good enough for most work.
I still have my big Simpson VTVM, but one of the surplus joints in town has
a bunch (dozens) of HP (I think) FET versions, the ones that used to be so
common in labs about 8" tall, 5" wide, and maybe 5" deep with a nice wide
mirror scale etc. Any sane reason I should get a few of them?