DMM woes

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Original poster: Dsurfr-at-aol-dot-com 

Hi All.
The list seems kind of strange lately but I'll try posting this and see 
what happens - could be an AOL thing. We moved recently and I'm just 
beginning to get my coils set up again. I stupidly left my DMM (turned off 
but w/ test leads plugged in & wound around the case) sitting on the bench 
next to one of my twin secondary coils. This was unconnected and about 6' 
away from the other twin I had set up to run solo to test out a few things. 
When I tried to use the meter today it seems fried - LCD display is weird 
and it won't take any readings. I assume it was damaged by the RF from the 
running coil and perhaps the very close proximity to the bottom of the 
matching extra secondary & toroid. I'll have to add this to my list of 
things never to do again and buy a replacement but would anyone care to 
take a stab at what actually happened to the unit?
Thanks in advance for the guesses,
Jim