I swore by analog meters until last month's calibration job

For ages, I thought digital multimeters were just for show. Then on a flight control calibration, the analog needle wavered while digital gave ROCK-SOLID numbers. That convinced me to upgrade my toolkit. The precision caught a wiring fault I would have missed otherwise.

2 comments

2 Comments

park.emery2d ago

My buddy Dave always mocked digital meters until his analog one failed during a critical repair. Now he won't touch anything without a digital readout.

simon_black2d ago

Man, I get that completely. I held onto my old analog meter for years, thinking it was more reliable. Then during a board repair, the analog reading drifted all over the place and I almost shipped a faulty unit. Swapped to a digital meter and it pinpointed the bad capacitor right away. Never looked back after that moment.