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What was your first multimeter or voltmeter?
HighVoltage:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 24, 2017, 11:52:33 am ---
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.
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Oh yes, best to forget about those lights that almost did not produce any usable brightness.
This is a picture of a typical light and battery of my childhood.
Pertrix = Varta
And these two flat metal connectors worked perfectly on my tongue.
mairo:
I was given initially one of these little yellow $5 DMMs, but later bought myself a Protek 506
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: HighVoltage on July 24, 2017, 04:25:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 24, 2017, 11:52:33 am ---
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.
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Oh yes, best to forget about those lights that almost did not produce any usable brightness.
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I found they were bright enough - but only until you really needed them. Either the bulb had broken, or the battery run down, or the contacts corroded, or the torch fell off its holder and broke when it was run over by a car, or...
--- Quote ---This is a picture of a typical light and battery of my childhood.
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Thank you so much for that - not. (Details omitted to avoid giving people "of a certain age" a heart attack).
On second thoughts, there is an advantage to your post... Whenever someone claims it was better before, then I can use those diabolical devices as a counterexample.
Alex Eisenhut:
Micronta 22-195
Some guy broke into my apartment years ago and stole that, and a pair of pants.
lowimpedance:
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on July 25, 2017, 11:06:49 pm ---
Micronta 22-195
Some guy broke into my apartment years ago and stole that, and a pair of pants.
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Jeez that's rubbing salt into the wound, the two most important things for a bloke :(.
Sure it wasn't another engineer :P
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