Video - how to use a digital multimeter to check resistance, batteries & voltage drop

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Another fun vid Russ...

As said in the vid, you get what you pay for in VOM's. Case in point, I still use the Fluke 8024B w/peak hold I bought in 1980, that for the first 10 years got used everyday many times a day, often constantly. It has been knocked off high places onto concrete floors countless times over the years, had heavy equipment fall on it, spent countless hours in the freezing cold deep snow winters in my and rental vehicles, survived near a million miles of commercial air travel and their gorillas who handle luggage... and it still doesn't miss a beat to this day. They are an excellent choice for anyone who uses one day in day out professionally... used to be WAY overkill for a home hobbyist (who probably also wouldn't weed through the detailed 60 page users manual). But the new Fluke's have become far easier to use than mine, and you can buy them new for several hundred dollars less out of pocket cost than what I paid for mine.

The upside is you can find used Fluke's for dirt cheap now days that still work just as good as new for home use. I have seen 8024B's for as low as $25.

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Probably a good vid, not watching as I know how to use a DMM. Just one question for you, why do you post things like this which are probably really helpful for people new to working with these sorts of things in the REOS MODS section? Surely you should want everyone to be safe not just those who use a reo?

These are my peeps and get special privileges like exclusive advance showings of movies.

The rest of ECF had to wait till today :)
 

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Another fun vid Russ...

As said in the vid, you get what you pay for in VOM's. Case in point, I still use the Fluke 8024B w/peak hold I bought in 1980, that for the first 10 years got used everyday many times a day, often constantly. It has been knocked off high places onto concrete floors countless times over the years, had heavy equipment fall on it, spent countless hours in the freezing cold deep snow winters in my and rental vehicles, survived near a million miles of commercial air travel and their gorillas who handle luggage... and it still doesn't miss a beat to this day. They are an excellent choice for anyone who uses one day in day out professionally... used to be WAY overkill for a home hobbyist (who probably also wouldn't weed through the detailed 60 page users manual). But the new Fluke's have become far easier to use than mine, and you can buy them new for several hundred dollars less out of pocket cost than what I paid for mine.

The upside is you can find used Fluke's for dirt cheap now days that still work just as good as new for home use. I have seen 8024B's for as low as $25.

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Thank you. I never thought to try to find one on eBay. Doh. ;)
 

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I have never been into a vape shop! There are none so local to me i'd make a trip there.

If i were new and trying to find juices i liked, maybe i'd make a trip to one - but there's nothing they have that i want.
I did get sent by mistake last week a Russian91% 26650 tank atty. That thing weighed a pound on its own - it was HUGE!

I like the new camera setup Russ - makes things a lot easier to see, same with your Reo #4 rebuild too.

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I have never been into a vape shop! There are none so local to me i'd make a trip there.

If i were new and trying to find juices i liked, maybe i'd make a trip to one - but there's nothing they have that i want.
I did get sent by mistake last week a Russian91% 26650 tank atty. That thing weighed a pound on its own - it was HUGE!

I like the new camera setup Russ - makes things a lot easier to see, same with your Reo #4 rebuild too.

T

Thanks T [emoji1]. That TOBH was a HUGE atty - then again so was that panzer. Like 28 mm. Makes my atty and REO look tiny.

The vape shops 'round heyuh are purdy seedy.
 
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