[AT] re: nase / VOM meters

[Steve W.]

You folks are too far advanced for me. My main bench meter is an EICO
232 VTVM... Field meter depends on what I'm doing. If it is high
precision stuff I have a battery version of the same type meter. If it
is just, "Yup got 12 volts on this here wire" then I use a Fluke
knock-off.  I have one of the HF meters in each vehicle and a couple
more floating around the shop as well.

Steve Williams

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew" <matthewx at dogod.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] re: nase / VOM meters


> The old simpsons where good for their time.  Easy to hurt, even more
so now
> that everybody has gotten sloppy with dvm's.  Back in the day they
where not
> the sort of thing you would ever lend out.
>
> Now I use my old trusty Fluke 8060A for stuff that needs to be
accurate
> but 90% of the time I use those $2.50 yellow plastic DVM's from harbor
> freight, only with better test leads.  For the vast majority of the
stuff
> I do they are accurate enough, and if you leave one out in the rain,
or
> drive over it etc. you don't feel too bad.  I have two issues with
them
> but both are addressable.  The first one is they do not put a "dot" on
> the business end of the range selector.  A small task for a sharpie,
and
> the other is the stock probes are junk, but a decent set of
replacement
> probes only sets you back 2-3x the cost of the meter.
>
> I fear the good old days may be coming to a close though,  Last trip
to HF
> they only had a few of the $2.50 meters in the cardboard boxes, the
new
> ones are orange, and blister packed (so they will take an hour to
open, and
> you need some sort of a tool to start with) and they had a $9.99 price
tag.
> Ouch!
>
>
> --Matthew
>
>
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