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VTVM meter moves when my hand is next to it & not on
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04-04-2025, 01:56 PM
Static electricity - but the other chaps beat me to it again. I've seen this before with analogue meters.

I've also seen related effects that will make liquid crystal displays (calculators and clocks etc.) act strangely, until the surface charge dissipates.

I remember using a VTVM (I think a Heathkit model) for one of the experiments in our first-year physics practicals series. Our labs were a bit archaic...

The second year lab had an AR88D in the corner - I wonder what happened to it?
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RE: VTVM meter moves when my hand is next to it & not on - by EdHolland - 04-04-2025, 01:56 PM



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