[AT] re: nase / VOM meters

[H. L. Staples]

Someone in this thread mentioned Eico test equipment.  I built several of
their kits and still have some of them.  Loaned a friend my VTVM and Tube
tester he kept them for several years then he died and I never got them back
  I think the Resistance Capacitance bridge is still around somewhere.  I
did a Google on Eico and found this site.  
http://users.rcn.com/fiddler.interport/eico.htm

Take a look if you like.

The old catalog prices seem so ridiculously low today, but when I bought
them, it was a considerable investment.

Around here some place there are still a couple of Triplets one jeweled
movement and the other is  a taught band movement with a mirrored scale. The
most used meters are the Fluke 77 and one of the little cheap digitals that
use a small 12 volt battery for power.

One of the handiest pieces of test equipment for 12 volt use is the old
simple test light with ground clip and sharp probe. A higher wattage lamp
can be used to help find high resistance connections that the digital meter
will not detect. 

"Most test equipment is useless, like a slide rule, if you don't have some
idea what the results should be."  quite often the results on a hand held
calculator are way off depending how club fingered I am. 

H. L. Staples
McLoud, Oklahoma
USA