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What was your first multimeter or voltmeter?

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tggzzz:
My first voltmeter was an incandescent lightbulb. Seriously. I used it for half a decade until I could afford something more conventional.

At school, when we needed to measure voltage to 0.1%, we used a NiFe cell, a 1m piece of resistance wire and and ruler, and a 1.0186V standard cell.  Seriously.

See my .sig and change "span" to "voltmeter :)

HighVoltage:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 24, 2017, 08:58:32 am ---My first voltmeter was an incandescent lightbulb. Seriously. I used it for half a decade until I could afford something more conventional.

At school, when we needed to measure voltage to 0.1%, we used a NiFe cell, a 1m piece of resistance wire and and ruler, and a 1.0186V standard cell.  Seriously.

See my .sig and change "span" to "voltmeter :)

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How funny

On that level, my first voltmeter was my tongue,  :-DD , long before I had a real multimeter, I knew how full a 9V battery was. Also, we had a lot of 4.5V batteries in Germany in those days of my childhood and the tongue pretty much measured them as well.

VK5RC:
One of the EEs in my Ham Radio Club seriously built a Tube transmitter many years ago without a multimeter - estimating the voltage by the kick off the back of his hand FFS :scared:

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: HighVoltage on July 24, 2017, 10:13:48 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 24, 2017, 08:58:32 am ---My first voltmeter was an incandescent lightbulb. Seriously. I used it for half a decade until I could afford something more conventional.

At school, when we needed to measure voltage to 0.1%, we used a NiFe cell, a 1m piece of resistance wire and and ruler, and a 1.0186V standard cell.  Seriously.

See my .sig and change "span" to "voltmeter :)

--- End quote ---
How funny

On that level, my first voltmeter was my tongue,  :-DD , long before I had a real multimeter, I knew how full a 9V battery was. Also, we had a lot of 4.5V batteries in Germany in those days of my childhood and the tongue pretty much measured them as well.

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I'd forgotten that technique! But then, presuming those batteries were for bicycle lights, that's probably because I do my best to forget those dreadful lights.

schmitt trigger:

--- Quote from: VK5RC on July 24, 2017, 11:13:39 am ---One of the EEs in my Ham Radio Club seriously built a Tube transmitter many years ago without a multimeter - estimating the voltage by the kick off the back of his hand FFS :scared:

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In that regard, we can claim that the world's first voltmeter was Galvani's frog legs.  ;)

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