Just remember: a cheap DMM is so much nicer than having no DMM.
I'm not sure I agree with this statement. During alignment & test II
of my K2, my cheap DMM went wonky on me. Looking for VCO voltages on
R30, and no matter what I tried, I only got a few dozen millivolts.
So I checked for +6 volts on one of the pins of one of the ICs and
found 20 volts! Then I checked at the power jack and saw over 30
volts! I shut off the K2 and pulled the power out, thinking for sure
that my power supply had just gone wild and fried everything in the
K2. I got my backup power supply out and checked that. It was
reading over 30 volts as well!
Of course, it was the cheap DMM. Anything under about 3 or 4 volts
read as close to 0 volts, and anything over that read as 20 to 30
volts. It still seems to work for measuring resistance but I won't
use it any more, it's lost my trust.
I was doing some comparisons online and the B&K models look really
good to me. I tried to find a local shop to buy the 2706 model but
nobody seems to carry them here. DigiKey has them but I was too
impatient to wait for delivery.
So I have another (different) cheap DMM for now. Oh wait, ok I
guess I do agree with that statement! :-)
73 de Stephanie
va3uxb
K2#5311 - K1#2132
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