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krw[_4_]

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Chris Malcolm wrote:

In rec.photo.digital Michael A. Terrell wrote:

What's more, for the specific purpose of checking out USB connectivity
and charging you don't even need a good meter, a crap one is perfectly
adequate.

Using even a crappy meter is more than some people can understand, as
well.

Sometimes you need to monitor a half dozen voltages or currents at
once. I'd love to do that with lab grade HP meters, each with a IEEE-488
interface, but they are over $2k each.

I'd rather I never met an IEEE-488 interface. :-( ...one off the
world's most stupid designs.

Some people actually do electronics, while others separate fly ****
from pepper. It isn't difficult to figure ot which category people are
in. I have about a dozen digital meters. The Fluke bench meters are
unrepairable, but the cheap HF meters keep working. Several other
meters are used, for the extended ranges, or special functions.

HF meters aren't repairable, and Flukes keep working. ;-)

I have three (one escaped) Fluke 77s and a bunch of HFs. I keep
the HFs in my tool boxes so they get borrowed. Since I've been
doing this, my Flukes haven't gone missing.

Fifty years ago he would have claimed that the $20 Heathkit VTVM
wasn't as good as the RCA VoltOhmist. that was closer to $100 even
though the circuits were almost identical.

Depends on who built the Heathkit. ;-) They did take a beating,
though there was one resistor in the ohms section...