Repair or Replace? [Was: Repairing Timex]

From: CLASSICCMP_at_enterprise.trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_enterprise.trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Wed Jul 19 06:30:31 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.

Earth - a planet so backwards they still think digital watches are a pretty
neat idea.

I personally don't see what's so inaccurate about analog watches. I can
easily read mine to a precision of one second, which is one part in
12*60*60. And that's just a regular watch; there are plenty of analog
stopwatches out there that will time to a hundredth of a second, which
(considering the human interface) is just fine.

Tim.
Received on Wed Jul 19 2000 - 06:30:31 BST