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Posted by jim on March 10, 2007, 11:02 pm
> Had the same experience as the guy who got a spark on his multimeter
> trying to test a wall outlet. I blew a fuse in my kitchen; now i gotta
> look shhepish for my landlord again. thing is i plugged into the 750v
> max hot turned it to ac volts and autoread did some research and im
> supposed to be able to put both leads on the litttle one and ground
> pow! big one and ground pow! little one and big one pow! no lights in
> my kitchen my milk's' goin' sour as we speak tryin to figure it out ,
> funny thing is when i was in highschool i was taught how to do this
> without pow! am i getting dimmer with age or is it how this meter is
> designed? its a radio shack 22-812 46-range n turns itself into an
> oscilloscope i did'nt finish reading everyones suggestions when i saw
> the other guy had his mistakenly set to dc trying to test ac (mine
> still reads dc. the inductor i was testin reads open: which i figured
> cause when i opened the ac to9v ac 1300mA adapter i smelled the
> familiar burnt transformer smell. i just wanted to relax with my new
> expensive 76$ tool,
> but no!
> pow!
> help please , brock
Get new meter than goe hire an electrican and save your self
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