In article , Jim Yanik wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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In article ,
Wayne Tiffany wrote:
My worst experience with the Dick Smith one was that I screwed up and
grabbed those leads instead of my VOM. Consequently I put 120VAC
across it and severely let the smoke out - time for a new one. Now I
have two red leads on it to make it more apparent that I don't have
the VOM leads.

Yes. I've recently built one and it's very good. But why supply
standard test leads while the sockets are the same colour? Surely you
could open the test lead packs and pair them up to the same colour -
wouldn't matter if red or black.


Just put some colored heat-shrink tubing on the ESR meter's leads at the
probe end;that IDs them.

Paint is not going to stick well to flexible plastic insulation.


I use some short leads with two small alligator clips.

greg