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Michael A. Terrell

wrote:

Whoooo Boy! I can think of no reason whatsoever that one should ever use a VTVM in these modern times. Sure, loading a Zenith TransOceanic while performing an alignment via a VTVM makes some of the things go 'by the book', but using a regular high-quality VOM is just fine.

A VTVM has a 1 megohm resistor right at the DC probe tip to isolate
the cable capacitance from the circuit being tested. Of course YOU would
never think of using the right equipment.

You never do any precision work, so any old crap meter is fine, for
you.

You don't care about detuning an RF or IF stage, or shifting the
L.O.way off frequency.

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Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)