Osborne OCC1 problem

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Thu May 15 17:15:00 CDT 2008


> It's going to have to be the 'scope... I failed to turn the multimeter off
> properly last time I used it, and now the battery is flat. Doh!

Quite a few of my multimeters only need a battery for the resistance 
ranges... They're analogue, of course.

And a few others run off the mains....

> Or, of course, I could bodge my universal power supply into powering the

Be careful doing that if one side of the universal PSU is grounded. Quite 
a few simple DMM circutis do not have the -ve side of the battery 
connected to the -ve input terminal.

> multimeter...... (don't dare suggest buying a battery! ;))

Unless your meter takes some obscure battery, I am suprised you don't 
have them in stock. ...

-tony



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