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Old 09-15-2020, 06:10 PM
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And there in lies the problem. A majority of the people at work have smart phones that they rely on for everything. Most haven't had to do basic math since they got out of elementary school so when it comes to basic conversions of electrical resistance from micro to milli to ohms to kilos to megas, they can't figure out how and where to move the decimal point. What really makes things fun is when they have to use a Fluke DMM. First thing they want to do is start pushing buttons, not knowing what the buttons actually do. On the Fluke 87, the resistance setting shares its location with capacitance, changed just by pushing a button. I had someone literally spend 20 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with the meter because the display was showing uF rather than ohms.