XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 23:37:07 +0100, Rich  wrote:   
      
   > 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   
   > Message-ID:    
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   > 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".   
      
   No, because it's illogical to change two things to set one thing.   
      
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