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Now seems like a good time to bring up a perhaps less versitile device, but all the more important for anyone who doesn't see a need for a multitester...the simple outlet tester. Nowhere nearly as talented, but a great thing to have handy when it becomes neccessary to check an outlet for juice. Is the light/device/appliance DOA, or have I just popped a breaker? That old switch cover is nasty looking, how 'bout a new one from Home Depot? The outlet tester might save you a few bucks, save your life, or just keep you from trying a new hairstyle...

Another makeshift device for checking to see which breaker controls which circuit is a good ole fashioned plug in radio...plug it in, tune to a strong station & crank it up...that way you can hear for yourself if you've cut power to an outlet without running back & forth from one end of the house (or up & down the stairs)...

Good items Zoid. I think you're talking about a 'wiggy' or Voltage Tester. Handy pocket item to check for live lines, but be careful with switches. You only have two ends of the hot side and you won't get a reading unless you can ground one side of your wiggy for each one to see which is hot and which goes to the appliance. You are safer making your test at the appliance and trying the switch 'on' and 'off'.

I've used your radio setup more than once when I was only trying to locate one outlet breaker.:thumb: Saves a lot of steps as most service panels are in the basement. If you have to identify all the breakers in a box, you can pay for a 'sniffer' or Circuit Breaker Finder with the first couple uses. Talk about a lot of running in a three story house. :faint:

She has an oscilloscope, does breadboard work, has a yummy ass, wears silky candy wrappers and most important, has a sexy mind. :tongue:





















I love you! :loveshowe

i married a carpenter turned engineer. we got some shit. :p

I love you too, Mr. Kindred Spirit. :x:

Both the links you put in come up for me as "item not availible", but I think you got the idea. The reason I like my "wiggy" (if that's what you wanna call it!) is because like you said, it's a pocket item...a multimeter actually does a better job, but I want to carry all the neccessary tools to the work area in 2 trips or less, & when I open up the vipers' pit & need to figure out which of the snakes might bite me, I don't have a third hand to juggle the 'meter & its two leads :yikes:

I must be tired cause I thought Scotz just said he don't have a third hand to juggle the meter & its two heads.

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Actually it's the live wires that are like snakes with two heads...

Well ya know Mr. Lixy's got one for all occasions!

More specifically...he's even got one just for blasting!

My father is an airplane mechanic, my brother is a car mechanic, and I just like taking shit apart and putting it back together again.

I've got at least two multimeters, as well as a couple of circuit testers. I've got all the basic tools I need to work on my SUV. In the past year I've replaced every part of the electrical system except the alternator. Changed front and rear brakes, and some other minor repairs. As long as I have instructions I have found there are very few things I can't fix.

I also built the computer I'm currently using. I loved doing that and I've been trying to talk friends into letting me build them one for the past year because I had so much fun doing this one. I just made a parts list for a friend this morning on newegg.com which I got to come in at under $500 with an OS.

I was up to 3 separate tool boxes by 1990, & when my father passed away in '92 I aquired at least a couple more. He also left me some very special hand woodworking tools (he apprenticed as a carpenter back in the late 1920s when there were few power tools avaalible, & he also seemed to be suspicious of them, having seen some fellows alter their fingers in them :yikes: )...one item I can't let go of despite never finding a use for is a 7 foot long 2-man buck saw...he once had me help him use it to cut down an old tree, & when he thought I wasn't putting enough elbow grease to it he said, "If you're gonna ride, get a saddle!" He later admitted his father had admonished him the same way, so it was kind of passing on a family tradition...if I have any tree cutting or trimming to do now, I don't have the time or energy to do it by hand, when chain saws are so cheap & widely available...although I do share some of Daddy's distrust of anything that can turn ugly on me so fast...

I have my grandfathers tool box he carried working for the WPA,some of my most cherished tools,that he took the time to teach me to use and how to care for them. One was a 2-man crosscut saw,I recentlly sharpened and took to a tractor show on school day.Watch a couple of 8-10 yr olds try to use it never laughed so hard !

I can't imagine life without my multimeter!

Or my wiggy, for that matter. :D

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