[Hallicrafters] re: Volt-Ohm meter

[Roy Morgan]

At 03:16 AM 8/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Greetings friends
>
>I'm looking for a good volt-ohm meter. From your experience, should I buy 
>a new one or go the vintage route, something that I've done with all my 
>other gear.


You should do both.

Depends what you mean by "good".  The classic tube type gear is very nice 
to use in my opinion: HP412C, TS-505, or even the Heath and RCA and Triplet 
VTVM's.  They work just fine on any Hallicrafters radio ever made.  Being 
able to watch the motion of a genuine moving pointer meter movement is very 
handy when making alignment adjustments. Your brain does not have to 
process to decide if 4.1435 volts is higher than 4.4153  In addition, no 
one needs to know whether the B+ is 354.03 volts or 345.67 volts.

But, if you want cheap and handy, surf over to the Harbor Freight website 
and order three digital jobbies for about $4 each, battery included.  Yes, 
four dollars each.  One for the tool box, one to store in reserve and one 
to use.   Mine arrived last week and they work just fine.

Or visit Rat Shack with about $20 and you'll come away with a nice handy 
thing.  These new little gadgets, of course, are totally 
unrepairable.  Don't even think about trying to fix one that you blew up by 
putting  a kilovolt into the ohms setting.

Roy

>From: "Sandy, W5TVW" <ebjr at i-55.com>
>To: <glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu>
>Subject: 600MRG> Need a multimeter?
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:35:12 -0500
>
>Hello all,
>     Anybody in need of one or even several (at this price!) Digital 
> Multimeters?
>     Check out catalog number 35761-2VGA at www.harborfreight.com
>
>     They are on sale for $3.95  (No typo! three dollars and ninty-five 
> cents!)
>
>     I bought one as a lark a few months ago and it is a very excellent 
> little meter!
>Even checks transistors!  I have no interest in the company, it's just a 
>damned
>good buy!  A genuine throw-away digital voltmeter that works!
>
>73,
>Sandy W5TVW



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