Hi DaN

Huh... It sounds Greek to me. I am still learning, hope I will understand near future. I will get there. ;-)

Hi DaN

Huh... It sounds Greek to me. I am still learning, hope I will understand near future. I will get there. ;-)

Yes, it would drive you nuts.

I bought an Innova from Walmart on the road when replacing a battery (to make sure it was the battery and not the alt) and found out later you can't turn off the autorange function. I've warned about it in several posts here on the board, but not in the 700 section.

The fact it is bouncing is cause for encouragement. A truly malfunctioning O2 sensor would just sit high or low (or mid range at 0.55V). Try to see if you can lock a range with your meter.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Thanks Art! This is indeed an Innova 3320. I went and exchanged for for the "lesser" 3310, human decides input range. Still need to re-check sensor with it.

I think autorange type would need a "hold" button or something to work? I think I would have to upgrade to Fluke brand....
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Exchanged it? Good for you. I could not believe there wasn't a secret method to lock the range, especially since the display shows "auto" on it, as seen in this photo. Scoured the manual, pushed on the knobs, googled it... Figure it must have been a fluke they forgot the range lock function. Nice large numbers.




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Art Benstein near Baltimore

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

My wife always makes fun of me for the weird contents of my "go bag" for travel. It has been refined over years of international travel and is eclectic (duct tape to maxipads to surgical tubing).

One of those items is a simple analog multimeter of the 1970's Sears variety much like this one but with a second set of alligator clip leads made by yours truly that are about 8' long.

http://www.lynx-india.com/index.php?productID=17160

If I am traveling more than 50 miles from home, the go bag goes with me (unless I am traveling carry-on only). The third most often used item in that bag is that multimeter.

In the back waters of Hungary and not 100% sure of that outlet you are about to plug your computer into...pull out the MM.

Car stalls in the middle of nowhere Arkansas...you can troubleshoot.

Etc. FYI, the most used item is the duct tape and the small "leatherman" style multitool takes second place.

Least used item (thank goodness) is a micro-sd card with scans of all my CC, passport, health insurance and a bunch of phone #'s. Needed it once...and I really needed it.

"surgical tubing"

Hi Onkel Udo II, what for???

Lots of things but primary use is a twisted strand of surgical tubing makes a great clothes line. The stuff stretches to ungodly lengths and you just tuck your cloths in between the strands...no clips needed.

Also works for a siphon....a straw.

Holds up a mosquito net when stretch between two objects (of course so does a length of para-cord which I also carry).

Anything else that comes to mind.

It sounds like undeveloped countries??

Often...not always.

Some times it is undeveloped areas of developed countries.

Some times it is "no room in the inn" decided to get out of London for the weekend only to find that Aberdeen is hosting a tall ships event so the only place to crash is in the park with the hippies.

More often it is just crap you need right now and there used to be no 24 hours shops in rural Europe except one pharmacy per town and the motorway/autobahn/autostrada gas stations. Things have changed some but even in 2001 my wife and I found ourselves in an Irish town with no bank or ATM and an innkeeper that only took cash. They had a "Bank Bus" that came through town once a week...the $300 in smal bills I kept in that go-bag were important.

Also, keep in mind that I have spent about 10 of my adult working years on the road. 8 of them in foreign countries. 4 of those in the middle east.

Most of my fondest memories of those times are holed up in some middle-of-nowhere spot surrounded by great people. Now that I travel with my wife more often than not, those experiences are less common but I still do not like to be caught flatfooted...who knows when you will need a safety pin for that tiny reset button on your GPS unit!

"who knows when you will need a safety pin for that tiny reset button on your GPS unit! "


Break your toe nail and use as a reset button or maybe your wife...

"or maybe your wife... "

I sure wish she had a reset button!

You left out WD40 & vise grips!
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In a car yes...for "travel" not so much.

When you said "analog multimeter of the 1970's Sears variety", I had to follow the link for a look. Sure enough, there's my multimeter. The way I look at it, if the operator isn't very sophisticated, why should the tool be?

It does work great for checking O2 sensor output - quite "visual".

I can't tell from the photo, but it looks like the toolkit meter from that era which usually had a 1000 ohms per volt movement (1ma). Too much load for an oxygen sensor, but good for most anything else. While on the subject of antiques, even my old Simpson 260 (20,000 ohms/volt, loads it.

For needle movement, I dragged out an old VTVM to use on the lambda sond. 11 meg input.


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Art Benstein near Baltimore

Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?

my multi-meter is so old it has beads instead of numbers

Yep...and works almost as well with a dead battery (no resistance testing)...much better than the operator and try that with your fancy digital multimeter (of which I have two or three).