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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2016-12-18 09:29:09
My trusty pre-digital Radio Shack Multimeter has breathed its last. There's an unopened package with a neat little Digital Pocket Multimeter inside sitting on my desk and I'm hesitant to break the seal.
Have any of you made the analog to digital transition? How'd it go?
I'm an analog dinosaur, hence the hesitance. A momentary glance at the hands of an analog clock tells me current, passed and interval to time states without need of mental calculation.
IOW, am I likely to be buying the analog version after I'm fed up with trying to do the digital conversion.
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Posted by: Gorgonops on 2016-12-18 09:41:45
As much as I like a good swinging needle, well, it's no contest, the digital meters are better in just about every possible way. They're more precise, auto-ranging is nice, even really cheap ones today often have logic probe and frequency counter functions... Not even close.
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2016-12-18 10:01:37
DMMs are the way to go, really. Given the smallness of the market I'd suspect the analog ones are actually more likely to be inaccurate these days.
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Posted by: techknight on 2016-12-18 10:04:53
I tried to use analog meters back in the day but I could never read them worth a damn. So I went DMM And never looked back.
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2016-12-18 12:12:11
For things like voltages I like digital
For checking continuity like checking traces or doing a pinout on a cable I prefer analog
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2016-12-18 12:49:00
LOL! Thanks gang. Posted this just before I took a friend to brunch for her birthday . . . wound up going to Radio Shack when she wanted stop by Bed Bath and Beyond. Now I've got a nice Analog Multimeter box sitting right next to . . .
. . . now I'm not sure which one to return. Maybe I'll find the little baby digital I've only ever used as a beeping continuity tester. :🙂
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2016-12-18 14:26:24
I purchased a Fluke series 29 meter back in the 90's and still don't regret it.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-12-19 02:35:00
If I was looking for a new one now, I'd get one with a data output (RS232 or USB) for logging measurements over time.
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