Repair or Replace? [Was: Repairing Timex] - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jul 2000

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  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. 
Yes, but the cheapie one I bought for work hasn't got the clearest readout
on the planet :) And I don't think it survived a 1 foot drop onto a wooden
floor despite being encased in a smart rubber coat! The one thing I've never
been able to do is read voltages from one - I can see that my transformer is
putting out *a* voltage but can't deduce from the readout *what* voltage.
Inexperience showing thru there. It's like the difference between analogue
and digital watches I suppose.