I finally gave up on my old multimeter after a weird fridge call in Tacoma

For a decade, I used the same analog meter my boss gave me when I started. It was fine for basic stuff, but last Tuesday I was chasing a ghost voltage on a Samsung fridge board. The needle just bounced around. I grabbed my coworker's cheap digital one, and it showed a steady 3.2 volts where mine said nothing. That was the whole problem. Now I keep a $50 Klein digital meter in my main bag. Anyone else have a tool they held onto way too long?

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oscarthompson18d ago

Oh, the quiet shame of a loyal tool letting you down. My old tape measure had a hook so bent it was basically guessing. Held onto it for years because it had "character." Turns out "character" means being off by a quarter inch on every cut.

evanh2717d ago

Man, @oscarthompson, that's so true about holding onto broken stuff! See it all the time with people keeping phones with shattered screens or dull kitchen knives. We get weirdly loyal to things that just don't work right anymore.