Earlier this week I was given an old bench style keithley DMM. I found the manual it was copyright 1979. So it is 30 years old and still appears to work nearly perfectly. It even does a decent job of 0ing out on ohm by itself. I have had other DMMs that will register like 1-3 ohms just for the leads. It was in one of the community colledge computer department labs for the computer classes I’m taking we were having problems with a system so we checked the CMOS battery with it. The teacher looked at it and was like you want it?
I was like sure. Because they have a whole box of the newer palm style witch is what the books for classes that discus them use. And for most students with little prior electronics experience could be hard to run.
I remember another teacher trying to use it but had no idea how and I looked at it and after a minute had an idea how to run it. But he refused to let me use it or help him use it. Even though I have been doing electronics for 11-12 yrs. we now have a new instructor because the other left for another job. And looking back on it and from what I have heard students and other staff say about the privious guy. It sounds like if he doesn’t know something none of his students will. (Not to brag: but getting the meter home and using it in the class for a minute made me feel like I did know what I was talking about then. even though the teacher made me feel like I knew nothing.)
I was like sure. Because they have a whole box of the newer palm style witch is what the books for classes that discus them use. And for most students with little prior electronics experience could be hard to run.
I remember another teacher trying to use it but had no idea how and I looked at it and after a minute had an idea how to run it. But he refused to let me use it or help him use it. Even though I have been doing electronics for 11-12 yrs. we now have a new instructor because the other left for another job. And looking back on it and from what I have heard students and other staff say about the privious guy. It sounds like if he doesn’t know something none of his students will. (Not to brag: but getting the meter home and using it in the class for a minute made me feel like I did know what I was talking about then. even though the teacher made me feel like I knew nothing.)
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