Testing my meters

[T4P]

well...honestly T4P. If you would have just plugged it in standing on the ground, it would have been impressive enough I guess. You didn't need to burn your hands....even if it's just a minor burn (maybe you just had luck).

You could do your own safety tests I guess. Please inform us before which model you intend to misuse... if we don't hear anything in a while from you  we know which models to stay away from :-D.

You know what i have up in line, I have to test the UT61E but i'm not afraid of that one, it would definitely blow the fuse in current and nothing else will happen on the mains.
Guess i should look for a equally crap victor DMM (VC97, but not the VC99 looking like one, that one's been discontinued for a long time) and misuse it

I blew up a VC meter too. A 200 euro scopemeter.

Did they have a 200 euro scopemeter? 

[Wytnucls]

You know what i have up in line, I have to test the UT61E but i'm not afraid of that one, it would definitely blow the fuse in current and nothing else will happen on the mains.
Guess i should look for a equally crap victor DMM (VC97, but not the VC99 looking like one, that one's been discontinued for a long time) and misuse it

You're such a brave man, taking so much risk in the name of science. Benjamin Franklin would be proud of you.

[PA4TIM]

Maybe there is a mix up, over here VC is VoltCraft, a brand Conrad uses. They have  meters from  6 to 360 euro. The scopemeter was a 1 MHz version and that was about 7 years ago, before the chinese toyscopes became afortable. But it seems you are talking about Victor.

[Achilles]

Maybe there is a mix up, over here VC is VoltCraft, a brand Conrad uses. They have  meters from  6 to 360 euro. The scopemeter was a 1 MHz version and that was about 7 years ago, before the chinese toyscopes became afortable. But it seems you are talking about Victor.

Probably a mixup..... Well, I do have a pretty old Voltcraft which I purchased at the end of 1990's. Not that bad and served my quite well in school. They normally label their stuff. As far as I remeber, a lot of the Voltcraft meters were Metex models at that time.

http://www.tequipment.net/MetexOscilloscopes.html

I think the Victor stuff can only be bought online (ebay and so on).....

I am curious how often T4P will burn his hands in the next months. Still don't get it why he had to hold the meter which will probably blow in his hands, but ok......his choice......Maybe wear welding gloves, buddy?!

[T4P]

It was worse actually, i was wearing my thickest welding gloves i had 
Just wanted to show it to them, i am a bit eccentric at times so yeah 

[M0BSW]

I see vichy also do a bench multimeter, on E-Bay, now youve all managed to put the wind up me , I stopped looking at them, and my Vc99+ is only for low voltage, see what youv'e done, I'm scared of it now

[T4P]

I'm not scared of the bench multimeter but anyway it's somewhere in singapore already

I see vichy also do a bench multimeter, on E-Bay, now youve all managed to put the wind up me , I stopped looking at them, and my Vc99+ is only for low voltage, see what youv'e done, I'm scared of it now

Don't worry Paul, it's okay for LVDC when it comes to electronics

[Achilles]

It was worse actually, i was wearing my thickest welding gloves i had 
Just wanted to show it to them, i am a bit eccentric at times so yeah 

wooow.....ok.......that would have been a serious injury for somebody careless who makes that mistake........ probably without any gloves....just quickly measure how many current is on the mains socket .........ouch, don't want to think about that


M0BSW: well.....there's no problem. Just don't use it in high energy circuits .....for electronics, I don't think you'd be handling more than maybe 20V and 1A.......if you're playing with some amplifier or so. You'll probably stay much lower.......
So, if you have it,....use it and it's fine. Maybe not that accurate, but who cares ....

[M0BSW]

It was worse actually, i was wearing my thickest welding gloves i had 
Just wanted to show it to them, i am a bit eccentric at times so yeah 

wooow.....ok.......that would have been a serious injury for somebody careless who makes that mistake........ probably without any gloves....just quickly measure how many current is on the mains socket .........ouch, don't want to think about that


M0BSW: well.....there's no problem. Just don't use it in high energy circuits .....for electronics, I don't think you'd be handling more than maybe 20V and 1A.......if you're playing with some amplifier or so. You'll probably stay much lower.......
So, if you have it,....use it and it's fine. Maybe not that accurate, but who cares ....

Oh it's acurate alright, I let the calibration centre play with it when they did my power standard for calibration, and have got a certificate for it . I use it for my amateur radio projects, I currently working on a audio EQ for my amateur radio transceiver, so it's all low voltage maybe a max of 1 amp, dont do the high power electronics, I have the transceivers and linear amp service at Kenwood UK.