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Show your Multimeter!
Sbranky:
present of a passion/hobby
shakalnokturn:
The last to join my hoard was a Tektronix DMM 914 but I'm not showing it, nothing too exotic about it.
Instead a photo of one I don't own that tempts me (just for the aesthetics) every time I see one for sale.
soldar:
Beautiful!
Edison:
So I'll throw in something too, although it's my own production, but very useful for my needs. Quadruple independent voltmeter +/- 200V with an accuracy of 0.1% and that is absolutely enough for orientation measurements, the idea of its production was born during the repair of a motor card from an industrial CNC and I needed to simultaneously monitor 60 ; 24; +/- 15 and 5V. He also got a job repairing audio equipment, measuring devices, etc.
The protective film has not yet been removed during the tests.
soldar:
--- Quote from: Calambres on March 12, 2024, 06:27:42 am ---Well, not really. I used to use it when aligning the IF in radios. DMMs are not up to the task. Now I've got a VTVM and the ICE 680-R is almost never seeing the light out of its drawer but there are things for which a good analog multimeter is still essential. The subtle movements of an analog needle are not easily obtainable with a DMM.
Of course my ICE 680-R rests in its drawer without a battery inside. No need either for its completely outdated ohm metering capabilities nor for a hideous battery, waiting there to leak and destroy the whole instrument... and I also have two or three of those 2R10 batteries in their original blisters from the heyday:
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I agree that sometimes a mechanical needle provides a smoothing / dampening which can be useful with unstable signals when the digits of a digital display would just be jumping around and provide no useful info.
By the way, for you or anyone else who might be interested, I have the manual in Spanish. It is like 78 pages so would be 39 scans. Not that I am keen on doing it but if anyone really wants it maybe I could get myself to do it.
Here are a couple of pages.
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