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You mentioning someones nuts again? LOL

I guess you can count

Glad you found it, and Glad You Like iT.... Have Fun

Yes it is, you keep the mic gain down which will pick up less background noise and you sound clean and clear.

@@bigcbradio No, it's not. You're slobbering and spraying chunks into it. I have owned my +2 a lot longer than you have. It's directional. Stop eating the mike. Nobody wants to hear you smacking and lisping. Your newbie is showing.

@@bigcbradio No. Totally incorrect. Buggers spit and taco crumbs all in the screen. And hearing your blubbering smacking lips makes me want to puke.

@@bigcbradio LOL No.

@@terryparker1694 LOL, Yes.

Darn right. I got a dozen of these for free and I expect Fluke quality at that price!

I know, I've been watching my back for years

Yes I am paranoid and full of conspiracy theories, like why do my wiper blades only last a month, but the similar wiper on the door windows last for 10 years or more? By the way, when I first posted this video someone pointed out in the comments that if you look at the main board, that the smaller board was cut out of it, and that is why they have 2 boards. I immediately mentioned that I made a mistake and am eating my words, but my paranoia leads me to think that you kinda look like a lizard and may be a democrat.

Making something as cheaply as possible and falling bellow the floor of reliability may not be "planned obsolescence" but it's manufacturing a disposable product. Basically the same, where one is nefarious and one is just negligent. Hard to complain here if they hand these out for free though.

But it was free junk for many years and they work fine for a while

Yep, having the projection as one PCB reduces the number of boards per pallet = more expensive per unit.

Yeah, this is a multimeter you buy when you blow a fuse on your good one and need it for a job asap

Not everything. My harbor freight angle grinder has been chooching for years and years, I got it for like 15 bucks.

I never said I expected quality, just trying to help a few people fix their meter easily.

​@@LostBeetle I have dozens if not more HF tools and all of them have been going strong for years, and many people do not know that they will replace most broken hand tools free

@@bigcbradio Fair enough, but for most of us, it's not worth the time to open it up and solder it. Taking more than two minutes to fix a $3 meter only makes sense if one's time is worthless.

That phrase is known as "Hanlon's Razor". Not only your Dad has spoken these words. 😁

they were free for many years

Yea I'm hardly inclined to complain about something that was effectively given away. Of course it is going to be garbage and not designed to last. This feels like getting a free sample at costco and complaining it wasn't a full portion.

Meters are definitely a 'buy a good one and cry once, or cry every time you use the cheap one' product.

I got mine for free. I wouldn't use it to repair medical equipment, but it's good enough for hobby use.

Yeah, I don't trust the accuracy of these things. They're useful as a "is there voltage/continuity here" kinda meter, but the actual number on the screen isn't very trustworthy. (Interestingly, the unit I own seems to be *fairly* accurate on DC, but on AC the numbers kinda dance all over the place)

Don't even need a fluke to get a good meter nowadays. For most hobbyists a sub 50$ Klein meter is plenty good. I've had mine for damn near a decade, drove off with it under my hood and lived there for a few months during the winter, still use it daily.

same, same, now i use an SMA92 it was arround 25-26euro, Its a digital multimeter, with much safer leads, i wasnt even dared to put my leads near 3digit volts, the the probe cable was that bad and unsafe.

Yes, I have that happen also, and it seems to be the selector switch almost every time. I have to take them apart and clean them. A couple of times tho cleaning the battery contacts solved it.

yeah, it happened with me too, like i was measuring a 100ohm resistor, it was saying like its 141-2ohms, and i wasnt fooled since the resistor was brand new and i can read the markings on it.

@@bigcbradio Adding petroleum jelly to the slider contacts right after unboxing the meter helps a bit.

I know a guy that lives 71 miles away and over a hill, I can talk to him almost every night... he uses a Wilson 5000 Mag mount on his BBQ grill on his back patio... You should try that.

@@bigcbradio I will try that! I want to get back into the hobby and plan to get a mobile rig. Cheers from California!

This is my friend "Number 3" he also has his own youtube you can watch him on... www.youtube.com/@chuponnumber3socal183/videos

So you are saying it was cheaper for them to make 2 different boards and then solder them together? You are going to make me make another video... I have these meters going back more than 10 years and the older ones still work, they have one board and they have 2 pins to support the board behind the sockets.

@@bigcbradio It might actually be cheaper, if they can get more yield out of a single sheet sheet of PCBs or something like that. Or they could have just changed the design to be able to be used in other products - say if another companies wants the Chinese factory to build a meter but have the sockets in another location in the shell. In that case they could just use some wires to put that little board somewhere else instead of major PCB redesign. It's also possible that it's made an entirely different factory to explain the design changes. Remember that "Harbor Freight" doesn't build anything - it's all pretty much so-called "white box" Chinese junk with a label slapped on it. I'm not disagreeing that it's poor design, though. I dunno, I just have trouble using the term "planned obsolescence" on something that for the price you paid you wouldn't expect to be a high quality item.

@@bigcbradio yes, it's cheaper, indeed. Look at the dent, in the top of the video. The small PCB is cropped from that space. This allows making two boards at the cost of one, a substantial decrease of the board area, and a more efficient use of the raw material -- so, it'll be cheaper.

@@cesarcarvalho116 Damn, got me! Now I feel really stupid. LOL, Good Catch! Now I have to pin your comment to the top... But I guess I will leave the video so people still see the fix.

Edit... you were right!

Who you calling a Dummy

Series with the primary. Imagine it like this: Put 2 power switches side by side going to the primary, if you turn on either switch the transformer turns on. If you turn on both switches the transformer is on. It wouldn't matter which switch you turn on, the transformer turns on as soon as the first switch is in the on position. If you turn on the second switch nothing new happens, the first switch already turned it on. So now take one of those switches and have it run thru the light bulb on its way to the primary instead of strait to the primary. If you turn on the switch with the light bulb first, the light bulb will absorb the possible surge of current that would normally thump the transformer, and it will also put the magnetic field in the transformer in sync with the power that is coming in thru the light bulb. That switch and its power going thru the light bulb is the "soft start". Now you leave the light bulb switch on and also turn on the other power switch. Now the transformer is able to draw its full current as it is fully powered on, and at the same time the power that was going thru the light bulb has been bypassed. You can do it with 2 switches and a light bulb, or a resistor, or timers, etc. It is really simple, you just power up thru a suitable resistance, then bypass that resistance with another switch.

@@bigcbradio Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I understand the light bulb in series with the primary. That has been around for a long time. I just couldn't tell in your video where you were putting it. I thought maybe you were trying to explain something I haven't seen and I didn't want to miss it, if you were.

50 years I haven't flattened a tube yet.... (knocks on wood)... but... I did sell that amp recently and the guy kept saying he was going to drive it with 100 watt HAM Radio. I told him at least 10 times, don't do that, he kept saying he could turn the power down, and I kept saying don't do it! Later that day he called me to listen to him on air from 75 miles away and over a 10,600ft mountain. I told him it sounded bad like he was over driving it. The next morning he called me complaining that it stopped working and he thought I should repair it because as soon as he got home and hooked it up locals told him it sounded bad.

I had a friend offer, but it seems easier to sorce them from light timers

Glad to hear

Rattle in the conduit..... sounds like you could use some soft start there

I sold that one years ago, but it was a good radio

Yes, that is the correct way to do it. I'm cheap though, I just use a switch and I'm the timer and by the time I switch it, it's ready. LOL

I actually have many mot's and I do have 2 matching. I was planning on doing just that with them, but I haven't got around to it yet. I was going to run the secondaries in parallel. You have good advice, hopefully others read this also.

​@@bigcbradioseries is better as it spreads the current evenly. Just aim for half the voltage required on each one.

@@dieseldes6578 I will try it both ways, it is just for 6.5 volts so it will be easy to try it both ways. Maybe I will put them next to each other and try looping the secondary thru both ! 😀

That's 2 - I ohm 1 kw resistors, forgot to mention that.

@@KA9DSL I figured they were BIG resistors since you were working with 50KW.. LOL. Sounds like a fun job. I only work with small stuff, like 1000 watts. I was only mentioning the soft start in this video regarding the kick from the magnetic field, but yes, as you mention, it is a good idea also for charging capacitors and filaments also. Thanks for the comments.

@@bigcbradio Thank you, by the way, the xfmr and rectifiers were all in a big tub of mineral oil for cooling. And the beam voltage was 32kv. Very dangerous to work on, even when it's off.

@@KA9DSL Dangerous is an understatement at those voltages. I have been zapped many times, everything from your ordinary car ignition coil to 240ac house, but the worst ever was from a capacitor in an old ceiling fan that had been removed from the ceiling for a month! As crazy as that sounds, I was taking the fan apart for who knows what now, but as I took it apart the capacitor got me from hand to hand thru both arms and across the chest. Seems silly since the cap was about the size of a D battery and it was just a 110v fan, but my muscles were sore for a week. It was one heck of a firm contraction. I was holding the fan up with my left hand and had the wire cutters in my right, and when I cut into a wire..... Snap! Since that day I don't mess around with anything without thinking first.

I sold it, but it was a Kenwood 570S, I watched the video to be sure

@@bigcbradio Just got a Stryker and a MACO antenna for it...

@@Joe_Goofball Have fun and make some videos for us