Avo has ALWAYS been the mutts-nuts for first-class, over-engineered quality stuff.
The old bakelite Avo-8 multimeters are still unsurpassed in quality of construction, if not in the sheer robustness you get from the high-impact ABS plastics and digital circuitry of modern gear.
My loop tester does this so sometime I can have some (fun
) by seeing if I get the same results by measuring and calculating.
In my copious spare time.
I can't help feeling though that relying on instruments like that is a bit like learning to fly and assuming that you will always have GPS available, and therefore not learning to use VOR and DME equipment, or, heaven forbid, a watch, the Mk. 1 eyeball, a map and a "navigational computer" (aka a vector slide-rule).
The old bakelite Avo-8 multimeters are still unsurpassed in quality of construction, if not in the sheer robustness you get from the high-impact ABS plastics and digital circuitry of modern gear.
My loop tester does this so sometime I can have some (fun
) by seeing if I get the same results by measuring and calculating.In my copious spare time.
I can't help feeling though that relying on instruments like that is a bit like learning to fly and assuming that you will always have GPS available, and therefore not learning to use VOR and DME equipment, or, heaven forbid, a watch, the Mk. 1 eyeball, a map and a "navigational computer" (aka a vector slide-rule).
