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From: johnh@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (John Haddy)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Dmm Advice Needed
Date: 20 Apr 1993 04:11:30 GMT
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|>   What the world needs is a meter that won't let you change ranges or
|> turn it on/off with a lead stuck in the amps jack - a little bit of
|> clever plastic detailing would take care of this and make the world
|> safer for electricans, anyway.
|>    Not that I've ever put a meter on the wrong range into a live 
|> circuit, no, not me...not more than a dozen times, anyway....
|>     Bill
|> 
|> 
|> bills@inqmind.bison.mb.ca
|> The Inquiring Mind BBS, Winnipeg, Manitoba  204 488-1607

The Fluke 87 beeps at you if you try to take it out of a current measuring
range while there is still a lead plugged in to the current sense socket.

... this should solve your problem - unless you are in a noisy environment.

JohnH

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