21 Sep
2010
21 Sep
'10
2:19 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Well, I'm not sure I'd want something that wasn't sealed anyway, just so dirt
couldn't get in there. There's a little rubber strip around the battery cover
on one of my meters, for instance. I just wonder if you could chop the part of
the case that sits over the battery and somehow turn it into a removable
battery cover...
Tony Duell
wrote:
Possibly. The problem with doing this (and the switch mod you suggested)
is that I do use my mutlmeter on live mains stuff from time to time (not
suprisingly). Now, there is obviously no isolation between the inputs and
hte battery, which means the battery is 'live' when I am testing mains,
etc. And any modifications would have to ensure that the there were no
exposed live parts. 1) You have ot dispmantle the meter to change the
battery, and it's
assembeled with self-tapping screws going into the plastic case. I don't
know how many insertions they will stand.
*if* you could fix yours, can you modify
the case to make some form of hinged
/ clip-on battery compartment so that ceases to be an issue? It probably
doesn't even have to be pretty, so long as it's functional. I could probably pass the display off as a silhouette
iamge of a
munntain range :-).
Ahh, so the black portion is 'jagged' then? From your original description it
sounded like a regular rectangular section corresponding to the lower half of
the display, which did seem more like a driver-type fault. Something more
irregular does seem more like a broken LCD :-(
Unless I can get the right part somehow -- and Fluke
can no longer supply
it -- I am stuck.
Maybe try the local Freecycle list? Given the population density around you, I
expect there's a healthy nearby list, and such a meter's the sort of thing
someone might have lurking in their loft that they'd completely forgotten
about :-)