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| Z-mann:
I discovered the following thing: When you touch (accidentally!) the positive terminal of the 9V Battery, with the COM lead in VDC Mode - the meter will reset and shows "bAtt" continuously. I think the Batt.-Voltage detection has failed. Of course the Battery is full and the fuses are fine. I downloaded the service manual, and I'm currently looking for a voltage divider (or similar) for measuring the Vbat. I would appreciate some advice or a hint to look for, in the schematics. Greetings :-BROKE |
| tszaboo:
Every manual states: Remove probes when opening. No probes, no measuring battery. I don't know why you would even try??? It has low battery indicator for you. |
| retrolefty:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on May 19, 2014, 10:41:59 pm ---Every manual states: Remove probes when opening. No probes, no measuring battery. I don't know why you would even try??? It has low battery indicator for you. --- End quote --- Come on he said "(accidentally!)". The question is it recoverable or did it cause some component damage? |
| FrankenPC:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on May 19, 2014, 10:41:59 pm ---Every manual states: Remove probes when opening. No probes, no measuring battery. I don't know why you would even try??? It has low battery indicator for you. --- End quote --- I honestly didn't know that. I do now though. Thanks for the valuable lesson bricked Fluke guy! NOTE: In the 25 years I've been using DMM's, I've never used the meter on it's own internals. Just for the record. |
| Napalm2002:
It's the whole don't push that button thing. You know u wanna! |
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