[time-nuts] Analog meters

[Neil Gruending]

Just remember that on a DMM it only works for True RMS meters and for
low frequency signals. This is especially true for handheld meters.
You can see 60Hz ripple, but not most switchmode power supply ripple.

Neil Gruending

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Chris Albertson
<albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Tijd Dingen <tijddingen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Which I suppose goes to show that:
>>
>> 1) know your instrument
>> 2) never trust any single source of information
>
> 3) When measuring a voltage on a power supply always remember to
> switch the DMM to "AC Volts" to see what the AC component is in
> addition to simply looking at DC volts.
> --
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> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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