Repair or Replace? [Was: Repairing Timex]

From: Adrian Graham <agraham_at_ccat.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jul 19 05:12:15 2000

> 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.
Received on Wed Jul 19 2000 - 05:12:15 BST