Amp guage maxed out.
I hate to sound like a 'broken record' but in this day and age there is NO excuse for not owning a usable multimeter. "When I was a kid" you could not buy multimeters locally anywhere. Not in parts houses, not in hardware stores, and there were no Lowes or Home Depot. And there were no digital meters, and the only ones--analogue-- were always somewhat delicate. You could not toss them into the trunk and rattle them around washboard roads, not if you wanted them to work later on.
At the time I joined the Navy in spring of '68, there were sort of two 1/2 electronics stores in Spokane--and a multimeter from them was not cheap. At the time you could order import meters through some electronics catalogues, Lafayette Radio, Burstein-Appleby, or Allied Radio or the like. But that took a LOT of time..
My first meter, which I coveted closely was an aged old (I think RCA) VOM (Volt-Ohm-Milliameter) AND THEY HAD NO amperage scales, just small milliamp scales.
My first meter was older than and nowhere near as good as this one, but this was the idea--you plugged the test probes into jacks to select the meter range you wanted
I hate to sound like a 'broken record' but in this day and age there is NO excuse for not owning a usable multimeter. "When I was a kid" you could not buy multimeters locally anywhere. Not in parts houses, not in hardware stores, and there were no Lowes or Home Depot. And there were no digital meters, and the only ones--analogue-- were always somewhat delicate. You could not toss them into the trunk and rattle them around washboard roads, not if you wanted them to work later on.
At the time I joined the Navy in spring of '68, there were sort of two 1/2 electronics stores in Spokane--and a multimeter from them was not cheap. At the time you could order import meters through some electronics catalogues, Lafayette Radio, Burstein-Appleby, or Allied Radio or the like. But that took a LOT of time..
My first meter, which I coveted closely was an aged old (I think RCA) VOM (Volt-Ohm-Milliameter) AND THEY HAD NO amperage scales, just small milliamp scales.
My first meter was older than and nowhere near as good as this one, but this was the idea--you plugged the test probes into jacks to select the meter range you wanted
