One of my first rules is NEVER LEAVE A METER CONNECTED TO THE AMPS RANGES After measuring current I am VERY VERY careful to take the lead out of the current hole and back to the V/O hole on any meters I have Peter Cousens cousens@biscit.biz > -----Original Message----- > From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] > On Behalf Of cdb > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:02 AM > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: [OT]:Achieving a Diploma in Idiocracy > > After spending 5 minutes trying to work out why, when measuring a > voltage across a capacitor, I kept getting a nice blue/orange spark > and the PIC resetting, I realised that I was using the probes of my > second multimeter which was switched off ,and reading the result on > the first - probably explains why everything appeared open circuit as > well. > > Do I pass with honours or special mention? > > Colin > -- > cdb, cdb@barnard.name on 31/03/2002 > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.