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Why do I need more than 1 multimeter?
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Nominal Animal:
It aint hoarding if you use them tools. :-DMM
Berni:
Well id say collecting test equipment is still a better hobby than collecting most other things like stamps or baseball cards.

The resulting pile of equipment does come useful every so often even if the piece of specialty gear in question was not powered on for the last year or two. Also the process of it is pretty exiting as you celebrate a little inside every time you score a piece of gear for a great bargain price, then comes the tense wait for it to get here as you have second thoughts about how hard it might be to fix. Then the thing finally arrives, taking it apart and looking at whats in there and how it works, sometimes getting everything apart and back together is a bit of a mini puzzle. Sometimes it just needs a new fuse, other times its an adventure of tracking for the spare parts. And then it finally WORKS again and its a great sense of accomplishment. You proudly clean it to make it look as new as possible, give it any missing feet and put it up on a shelf.

There is also plenty of progression since quite a lot of times you need other gear to fix or calibrate whatever you bought so you have to gradually bootstrap yourself up the chain, giving you a nice sense of progress trough it all. And it doesn't stop once you have every major category of instrument, there is always an instrument out there with more performance than what you got, so it also becomes a matter of upgrading your gear collection to reach new heights of GHz,TOhms, nV, pA etc....

Tho if you are going for a collection of gear similar that of the TheSignalPath youtube channel then you will need some pretty deep pockets.
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