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Was your first meter a "trashy" meter?
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Fungus:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on March 23, 2023, 09:03:59 pm ---How about this one I inherited?

Actually I had two of them, and IIRC still have one. It was a truly crappy meter...

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...but very pretty.

Performa01:
My true first meters were DIY MM-galvanometers. Because of their input impedance of about 4 ohms, they were ammeters, even though I ued them as (Very low Z!) voltmeters primarily. :-DD
I guess these don't really count, this was back in 1970...

The first real meter was an electronic FET meter with a constant input impedance of 11.6 megohms and ranges starting at 100 mV and 1 µA F.S. Considering what was available back in 1975, I consider this rather high end and at age 15, I was mighty proud of this instrument.



https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/norma_normatronic_1811gb4de1811.html

I still have it today and it is still working, yet I don't use analog meters anymore.
andy3055:
Actually when I think about this, at the time those meters were made in the US, UK and Japan, they had better quality than today. One paid a good price and nothing was cheap like today. My first Sanwa analog meter I bought from my first salary as an apprentice cost me a one month's full salary. I still use it today after 50 years! These days one can get a cheap junk for a song if you are not careful and base the choice on price alone.
labjr:
Mine was that little Micronta analog meter too. My parents gave it to me for Christmas when I was 10-12 years old. The first one I bought was a Rat Shack digital meter. It was okay but couldn't handle every day use, and the rotary switch started making intermittent contact. 
andy3055:
Not to mention the cheap digital meters that are not heavy enough to stay in place when you just move the leads!
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