SmokChsr
Who let the magic smoke out?
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join:2006-03-17
Saint Augustine, FL
| reply to burner50
Re: Ooops, there goes my bargain DVM!
said by burner50  :My luck it would have happened to my fluke... I'd probably cry if I did that to my Fluke 8060A, Unfortunately I did do that to my Beckman a long time back. I was metering around 800VDC, and the reading kept getting lower. I pulled the meter probe back and it pulled an arc. I thought that was a bit odd so I had to try it again 2-3 times, each time it pulled an another arc. I then looked back at the meter and noticed a wisp of smoke come out. OOPS!!
Now days, if I'm going over 500V the HV probe comes out. |
