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Tried a $30 pinout tester from Amazon on a Garmin G1000 harness
Picked up one of those cheap pass-through pinout testers for a 50-pin D-sub harness I was building for a King Air 350. First try showed continuity on all but pin 23 which I knew was right so I almost re-pinned the whole thing. Turns out the tester had a dirty contact on that channel and a quick shot of DeOxit fixed it. Anyone else run into false fails on budget tools or am I just being cheap?
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avery72110d ago
And the funny thing is, spending more doesn't always fix it either. I've had $200 Fluke probes give me ghost readings because the banana plug wasn't seated quite right (always check the basics first, right?). At least with the cheap stuff you expect a little jank, but when the expensive tools act up it really gets under your skin.
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