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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: DMM (Dig.Multi-Meter) Recommendations wanted
Keywords: fluke
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Date: 11 Jan 90 16:24:10 GMT
References: <7332@chaph.usc.edu>
Reply-To: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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In article <7332@chaph.usc.edu> Cliff Yamamoto writes:

>Now with the Fluke 80 series DMM's you also get what they call "Input Alert".
>This little feature can determine which meter inputs your probes are plugged
>into (probably just a little microswitch in each banana jack).  For example,
>if you dial up Amps but you have the red probe in the Volts/Ohms jack, the
>meter will begin to beep at you until you remove the probe from the incorrect
>meter input.  I wish my older Fluke had this.  Would have saved me from
>blowing a bunch of fuses over the past years.


Back in the sixties when I was using Fluke's differential voltmeters
(anybody remember those grey boxes with the row of black knobs?), I created
a new advertising slogan for the company and offered it to them.  However,
they never got as excited over it as I did, and declined.  It was:

		If it works, it's a Fluke!(c)


Rich

(c) 1969, Richard S. D'Ippolito
-- 
Hitting baseballs and writing software are two professions where you can
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							 rsd@sei.cmu.edu
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