RE: Multitester for $3

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-hp-dot-com>

Digital meters, even expensive ones, have a tendency to freak out when 
measuring anything pertaining to an operating coil, even the mains 
voltage.  The high voltage transients invariably sent the display off to 
never-never land.  It may recover, it may not.  Better to use an analog meter.

Gary Lau
MA, USA

 >Original poster: "Jeremy Scott by way of Terry Fritz 
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <supertux1-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >Yeah you could even build one into a resistive
 >voltage divider and permanently mount it in
 >your coil :) Maybe one on the variac too :)
 >
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