XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   In sci.electronics.equipment Commander Kinsey  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:26:15 +0100, Rich  wrote:   
   >> As well, the user who'd leave the leads plugged into amps, and then   
   >> try to measure voltage on car battery or other high current source   
   >> is also just as likely to leave the range switch in the amps setting   
   >> (after having measured current somewhere) and subsequently try to   
   >> measure voltage.   
   >   
   > Nope.  I pick up a multimeter and set it to what I'm about to   
   > measure.  Same way as I don't drive into my house because I left my   
   > car in forward gear yesterday.   
      
   Interesting....   
      
   Yet you said this yesterday:   
      
   From: "Commander Kinsey"    
   Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 20:09:20 +0100   
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   ...   
      
   I find it crazy that you can select volts and have the wires in the   
   amps holes.  ...  I've broken a meter doing that, just measuring the   
   voltage on a car battery.  A £100 meter, but UNFUSED FFS!   
      
   ...   
      
   One aspect of "set it to what I'm about to measure" should normally   
   include: "are the leads in the correct jacks".   
      
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