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Do you often use peak/hold feature on your benchtop DMM?
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BILLPOD:
Yes, after my remark about the hold button, I went to Google and found 'AUTO-HOLD', and learned how it works by watching videos.  I then found that one of my meters actually has it, (EEVBLOG 121GW).   More reason to love that meter.   I then went to the meter's manual and found a description of it.   I always RTFMs but sometimes they need to be re-read from time to time.  Now I'm on the search through my other meters to see if any others have Auto-Hold.   :-DMM
BILLPOD:
     Whelp.....I went through all of my meters and the only other one that has auto-hold is my Fluke 189, (most of the others have a plain ol' hold button).   And it works better than on the 121GW in that the read appears instantaneously, whereas the 121GW hesitates for what seems like 2 or 3 seconds, which is not acceptable in some instances.
     Also, I see a hold button on my 26 year old Keithley 2000, and I'm guessing there is some convoluted method of making it 'auto', but its going to take a lot of RTFM to figure that out. :phew:
bson:
Peak no, hold yes.

Especially hold with a table view.  Makes it easy to verify the values of say a dozen resistors.  I can measure them all and then check the table to verify they're all say 100Ω.  It's rare, but it seems once a year or so I find an SMD part has found itself into the wrong values, or even Mouser shipped me the wrong value (happened once).  Frustrating to track down on an assembled board, so I make a habit to double check all passives before placing and reflowing.  (Unless they have a value printed of course, but that's mainly the larger parts.)
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