Training Trends:<br>Don't Be a Victim of Meter Meltdown
Larry Eccleston has seen it all. Multimeters with pieces of wire wedged under their fuses to disable their safety features. Meters "that just exploded" because the interiors were filled with water. Burned out machines asked to do more than they were ever designed to handle.
Eccleston, engineer manager of product evaluation for Fluke Corp. (Everett, WA), personally examines every digital multimeter that arrives in his test lab after an accident. Figuring out the cause of failure can someArial take hours--or weeks--of painstaking investigation.