I have been through several cheapo meters and when this last on got flaky after only a couple of years, I broke down and bought the Fluke. Bite the bullet.
I guess I need a new multimeter.
My Radio-Shack failed the drunken-drop-test, so I replaced it back in '20 with a Southwire multimeter from Lowes. Recently it has been intermittently failing in the DC mA mode which I need to check bias on my amp. By intermittently failing, what I mean is that when I select DC mA it does not seem to always go into that mode, as evidenced by no bias reading (when there obviously is current there) and it also shuts the current off to the tubes when attached to the bias plug and inserted into the bias jack on the back of the amp.
This has happened on two separate occasions now, and I' do not want to risk damage to the amp, so I feel it would be prudent just to buy a new meter. I don't need a "professional grade" meter, and what I was feeling inclined to doing was to either go to RadioShack's site and order one, or to order one through Amazon, but I was thinking that I would probably get some good suggestions if I asked for advice on the subject here.
TIA.
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Thanks, @erik_squires , I got to thinking about the "bias jack/plug leads" but not about the meter leads. That actually sounds more likely than the meter intermittently not working on only DC mA doesn't it. I know I have some spare meter leads some place, but I bet you are referring to the bias jack leads . . . and as I think about it, I am thinking that seems more likely. The actual part of the bias plug/jack that inserts into the amp omhs out good with that same meter. |
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