Multimeter Display Fade

Apr 09, 2010 8 Replies

I'm browsing ebay for bench meters and I can't tell if it's bad photography or that most of the fluke bench meters sold on Ebay look dim.



D from BC wrote in news:MPG.26294439472a62cc9897ae@209.197.12.12:

most likely bad photography.

Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com

Sounds like a match made in heaven... JF

"John Fields"

** ROTFL ...

.... Phil

I just did an experiment with polarized sunglasses and an old clock radio with a VFD.

There's no light attenuation when I rotate the glasses.

D from BC British Columbia

That's because God, in His infinite wisdom, has arranged it so that vacuum fluorescent displays don't need polarizers to work, but liquid crystal displays do. JF

And a race to the bottom.

Lead free solder is Belgium's version of 'Hold my beer and watch this!'

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