Hello everybody,
My name is Kenneth Hakansson and I'm from Sweden, I'm 47 years old and I just recently started to be interested in electricity and magnetism, grounding / earthing and stuff like that. I've got many areas of interest (cleaning my house is not one of them) ...
... I'm into all kinds of DIY stuff, woodworking, woodturning, hobby inventing, guitar playing, music in general. I'm also into building electric guitars, and I'm a big fan of Fractal Audio Axe FX (guitar effect/amp solution ... not affiliated in any way).
People like Ed Leedskalnin, Nicolaj Tesla and many many more just fascinate me, how they went "outside the box". I am all about exploring and learning new stuff, and I really do believe that if you learned something new each day, it was not a wasted day
(don't know if that made sense but ..)
I just bought myself my first digital multimeter and there's a lot I don't know about this stuff, but watching the youtube videos from Martin has been such a big help and I've learned quite a lot already about things I really never knew about. But like I said I am very much a newbie. I have been working with a bit of everything from construction painter, truck driver, network techie, (mcp,cna) .. network admin , done loads of websites especially in the 90's .. Nowadays I am only using the computer for fun, and as a tool to search for knowledge.
I got myself a Uni-T UT61D, seems to be a resonable unit for my level (probably more than I can fully use at this level of knowledge) but, I liked the fact that it was fused and it seemed solid, compared to my older "$10 plastic toy meter" that I used to just verify connection in network cables and such.
I've tried to measure the mv in my body, using the COM connected to a ground pole outside and the other just pinched between my fingers, I set the meter to DC and measure,...and it does measure, but it is constantly jumping between different values (autorange engaged) so much as it is almost impossible to makes sense of it, because it never settle down and stabilize ... The unit is brand new and from my limited experience it seems to be working as it should, the jumping around thing is confusing though, cause I would imagine once it has found it's range it should stabilize ?
One thing I don't like is the probes that came with it, there's just a tiny tiny piece of the very tip of the probes exposed, so little that I can hardly get a grip with the smallest aligator clips around it, the insulation runs all the way down to the tips. So I want to buy another set of cables, and I thought I could might as well buy it from Martins webstore, but I am not sure if I can use the Fluke probe set on my UNI-T .. I would think they are standard but iI wanted to ask you guys first before I go ahead and order them from the amazon store.
Or should I just return the multimeter and buy something else ?
So I am grateful for any clarification on that subject.
you all have a good one
// Kenneth
