24 Dec
2012
24 Dec
'12
4:47 p.m.
On 12/24/2012 02:49 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Yes...the "I'm not doing real work, so
this is good enough for me"
garbage. I've taken to bringing along grownup equipment whenever I'm
going to any sort of technical gathering, because of all the crap I see
people toting along. "Well this one was soooo much cheaper! That means
I was a SMART SHOPPER!"
It's much worse than that--just go to YouTube and search for "Free
Energy" or "Magnet Motor" for tons of examples of how a cheap DMM can
be misused. "Hey, I'm getting 150% efficiency out of this because my
DMM says so."
Not quite as bad as those (and they're there) who use voltage as a
measure of power. It makes the head hurt.
--Chuck