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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:08:38 -0700, "William Sommerwerck" put finger to keyboard and composed:

Well, what can you expect from text [sic] equipment? ;-)

- Franc Zabkar

Slopey proof reading, for one...

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I like the freebie Harbor freight coupon digital multimeters. For what I need they are fine, and I don't have to treat it with kid gloves like I used to do with the expensive voltmeters we had at Bell Laboratories where I worked.

The Vichy is interesting because it has functions that one rarely finds on inexpensive DVMs.

I have one of the Harbor Freight DVMs, which I carry in my toolbag.

I had to prod around in a machine that uses 208v with a $5 looking multimeter recently.

I was pretty concerned about the entire thing having a solder blob work loose and throwing the thing into a current range and exploding and taking off my hand and face.

Cydrome Leader wrote in news:jnadln$ejv$ snipped-for-privacy@reader1.panix.com:

two things to know about the $3/freebie HF DMM;

You must have been there at the very end--before 1984, a fancy DMM wouldn't have been visible above the noise at Bell.

When I was a postdoc at IBM Watson in 1988, a colleague was thinking out loud one day about buying a fancy lock-in amplifier. "Well, it's stupid to buy one, and I probably don't need five, so I'll order three." Bell had money to waste like that too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Jim Yanik wrote in news:XnsA040EAABD75FAjyaniklocalnetcom@216.168.3.44:

I forgot one of the most important things; the first DMM I got read VERY high,a 1.5 volt cell read almost 2 volts. the exchange DMM read much closer to 1.5V.

I worked at Bell Labs the Summer of 1970 -- a terrible mistake. Anyhow, they spent money like water.

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They may have had a monopoly, but at least they knew how to give great customer service, so I personally didn't care. Even knowing the service cost more, overall, still didn't care. Interesting, eh?

If they did, they lost the knowledge. AT&T is one of the worst companies you could do business with. They just don't give a damn.

Thanks to judge Green, we don't have that black corded dial phone on the wall anymore. Ok maybe a little facetious, but my parents had the same phone for

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that was way back when, not now.

half of that is in the probes alone.

assuming they were even soldered correctly to begin with.

So the most improbable thing was wrong with the machine. Not one, but two open heating elements, and the spare from the spares kit was also open.

Instead of trying to track down house marked west german era immersion heaters with strange bends, we're looking at having custom ones made here. I can't wait to see the quotes on those things.

Putt knot yore trussed inn spall chequers.