> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Herbert Graf
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 2:31 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [OT] Units rant

>...

> Oh, I believe you! :) It actually reminds me of how confused 
> I was about
> wall warts as a kid (maybe 6 or 7?).
> 
> The wall wart said something like: 9V, 600mA. With my shiny new
> multimeter I could measure it and it read something like 11V. 
> Yet every
> time I tried measuring that 600mA on my meter it would blow 
> the meters'
> fuse... :)
...

I did that as a kid, exactly once.  Meter wasn't so shiny afterwards.  

Trouble is, at a place I worked a few years ago, there was an EE
(really, degreed BSEE), who just never figured it out.  I tried to
explain voltage/current to her multiple times.  Several others tried
multiple times too.  It never sunk in.  Finally each of us just hid our
own meters; any meter left out on the bench, you could be sure had a
blown fuse.

Gary

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