Joe Worsley wrote:
> > With a fast sampling meter you just get unreadable noise, with
> > a slow sampling meter you get somewhat random samplings that are
> > hard to correlate.
>
> This is where us old timer electronics wizzards still use a analog
> voltmeter. It's a lot better for reading varying levels as it tends to
> average them out a little. I love my high dollar modern goodies but I
> still keep a couple of oldie goldies around for real work.
As mentioned, the low impedance of an analog meter would rule it
out for this application.
However, many meters (including the fluke I have here) have a bar
graph display along the bottom of the screen that serves the
analog purpose as well.
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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