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Interesting subject VOMs.

Shockwave;

A drop from about 3 feet onto a concrete floor might change your mind, you can bet this wouldn't happen with your Fluke.   As I mentioned earlier, IMHO not moving to ABS was the biggest problem any of these old meters had.

Beetle;

I tend to agree with you regarding using current ranges, but just looking across a big filament tranny, or checking a buss in a panel can instantly vaporize the red probe tip, and toast most everything from there, to the other end of the black one. DAMHIKT.

This is from the 262 manual;

There were a great many designs, and although I'm only familiar with the more popular Triplett, and Simpsons.   The triplett has what I consider "more useful" DC Volt ranges than the Simpson 260s,even though I used the Simpsons for decades. I like the Simpson 262 better than either the 630s or other 260 series meters, because the 262 resistance scale has much better resolution as you move toward "0".   Especially nice when wringing out harnesses.

<blockquote data-quote="KE0ZU" data-source="post: 433098" data-attributes="member: 34365">Interesting subject VOMs.&nbsp;&nbsp; Shockwave;A drop from about 3 feet onto a concrete floor might change your mind, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!&nbsp; &nbsp; :oops:"&nbsp; data-smilie="10"data-shortname=":oops:" /> you can bet this wouldn&#039;t happen with your Fluke.&nbsp;&nbsp; As I mentioned earlier, IMHO not moving to ABS was the biggest problem any of these old&nbsp; meters had.<img src="http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/Broke2603.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Beetle;I tend to agree with you regarding using current ranges, but just looking across a big filament tranny, or checking a buss in a panel can instantly vaporize the red probe tip, and toast most everything from there, to the other end of the black one. DAMHIKT.This is from the 262 manual;<img src="http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/262/CautionText_zps0c79571c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/262/2624.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/262/Simpson269_zps9f961561.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />There were a great many designs, and although I&#039;m only familiar with the more popular Triplett, and Simpsons.&nbsp;&nbsp; The triplett has what I consider &quot;more useful&quot; DC Volt ranges than the Simpson 260s,even though I used the Simpsons for decades.&nbsp; I like the Simpson 262 better than either the 630s or other 260 series meters, because the 262 resistance scale has much better resolution as you move toward &quot;0&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Especially nice when wringing out harnesses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KE0ZU, post: 433098, member: 34365"] Interesting subject VOMs. [B]Shockwave;[/B] A drop from about 3 feet onto a concrete floor might change your mind, :oops: you can bet this wouldn't happen with your Fluke. As I mentioned earlier, IMHO not moving to ABS was the biggest problem any of these old meters had. [IMG]http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/Broke2603.jpg[/IMG] [B]Beetle;[/B] I tend to agree with you regarding using current ranges, but just looking across a big filament tranny, or checking a buss in a panel can instantly vaporize the red probe tip, and toast most everything from there, to the other end of the black one. DAMHIKT. This is from the 262 manual; [IMG]http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/262/CautionText_zps0c79571c.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/262/2624.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv62/mikeinkcmo/testgear/Simpson/262/Simpson269_zps9f961561.jpg[/IMG] There were a great many designs, and although I'm only familiar with the more popular Triplett, and Simpsons. The triplett has what I consider "more useful" DC Volt ranges than the Simpson 260s,even though I used the Simpsons for decades. I like the Simpson 262 better than either the 630s or other 260 series meters, because the 262 resistance scale has much better resolution as you move toward "0". Especially nice when wringing out harnesses. [/QUOTE]

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