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Old 07-23-2008, 10:05 AM
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Re: for those of us who use multimeters (we all should) ...
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Originally Posted by David Wood View Post
Set the meter to amps when it should have been volts and it blew up.

David,

The two most common causes of meter failure are:

- using the wrong scale (such as amps or ohms instead of volts)

- switching scales while energized

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He was off work for about 6 months.
He was one of the lucky ones - he got to go back to work ... he got better.
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