surplusjohn
Diamond
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2002
- Location
- Syracuse, NY USA
I was fixing something the other day and checked its voltage with my sperry multimeter, which is 10 or 12 years old. I got a reading of 190 volts on a 110 circuit! yikes, this is in a commercial building so I thought maybe they had their transformer tapped wrong. Anyways i went and got the land lord and he checked the voltage with his meter and it was ok. So i put a new battery in mine and got the right reading. Point is, wouldnt you think that when a meter was failing it would have a fail safe mode where it would simply turn off or some thing other than giving a misleading and possibly dangerous reading? something to be aware of.