Just realized my Fluke multimeter was lying to me for months

I kept getting weird voltage readings on a Garmin G5000 install, turned out my meter's auto-range circuit was shot after only 18 months. Swapped to a manual range model and suddenly all those phantom glitches made sense. Anyone else had a trusted meter go bad on them?

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rivershah24d agoMost Upvoted

You kept getting weird voltage readings on a Garmin G5000 install, turned out my meter's auto-range circuit was shot after only 18 months" - man, that hits home. It's scary how much we trust these tools without really thinking about it. I think there's a bigger pattern here where we assume anything with a digital readout is perfect, but electronics fail all the time. It's like how people trust their car's gas gauge until it leaves them stranded, or how I believed my smart thermostat was saving me money until I compared bills. We put all this faith in automation and forget that the simpler manual stuff is often more reliable because you can feel when something's off. Your story makes me want to check all my gear against a known reference, you know, just to be sure I'm not chasing ghosts again.

richard_ramirez24d agoTop Commenter

Yeah auto range is nice til it lies to you.

sethp2624d ago

Yep, auto-range is the devil for reliability. Trust a manual meter way more when diagnosing finicky avionics. Hard lesson learned.