Multimeter recomendations

[John Robertson]

Tony Duell wrote:
> As all of us who do hardware repairs know, a multimeter is an essential 
> piece of test equipment.
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> Until a couple of days ago, I used a Fluke 85 (original series). It did 
> what I wanted, there were 2 parts of the design I didn't like, but apart 
> from that it was great
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> Anyway, I was using this iustrument on Saturday (actualy for testing the 
> PSU, etc, in an HP2623 graphics terminal) with no problems. I put it away 
> in my tool drawer. On Sunday I got it out for some other tests and 
> discovered the display had failed. It's totally black for half the 
> height, I asusem the liquid crystal material has leaked out (although the 
> glass is not obviously cracked or broken). AFAIK nothing fell on it in 
> the tool drawer (there are no really heavy tools in there anyway), it 
> wasn't dropped, etc. Just one of those things.
>
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This may simply be a case of reseating the LCD screen. It is a 
compression fit against the PCB with a conduction riser, try reversing 
the riser and power it up again. I've kept a few meters going past 
apparent best-before-dates doing this.

John :-#)#
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