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Thus spake The Demon Prince of Absurdity:
> Lionel wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:21:28 +0545, "Kadaitcha Man" wrote:
>>> Lionel <usenet@imagenoir.com> Thou nit. Though you bite so sharp at
>>> reasons, you are so empty of them. Ye leaked:
>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00:37 -0500, John Fields wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:07:43 +1000, Lionel wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:47:48 -0500, John Fields wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>> You'd better behave or we will confiscate your multimeter.
>>>>>>>>>> Ha! I have TWO!
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>> One for volts and the other one for amps?
>>>>>>>> Quite often, actually. And nearly as often for monitoring voltages
>>>>>>>> on different parts of a breadboard circuit.
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Just one for volts should work well with just an incandescent lamp
>>>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>> and a battery in the circuit.
>>>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>> Well then, that'll save you a little cash & bench space, won't it?
>>>>>> ;^)
>>>>> Why would I worry about that?
>>>> <sigh> Because you were just pointing out that you were only working
>>>> with simple lamp & battery circuits, so you only needed one meter,
>>>> instead of the two that I often require. So I politely observed that
>>>> /one/ meter will generally cost you less than /two/ meters, & that
>>>> /one/ meter would also likely take up less bench space than /two/
>>>> meters, you see? I trust that was a little easier for you to grasp the
>>>> second time around.
>>>>
>>>>> I've got plenty of both, plus some test equipment and parts
>>>> For your lamp & battery circuits? What on earth for? You've already
>>>> admitted that you only need one meter to get the job done. Really,
>>>> rather than wasting good test gear, etc, you should sell it or give it
>>>> to someone who actually /needs/ lots of gear.
>>> How much effort do you think it will take me to convince him he needs
>>> at least a dual trace oscilloscope for his lamp and battery circuits?
>>> Plus a pulse generator, a frequency generator, spectrum analyser,
>>> vector signal analyser, function generator, logic analyser and perhaps
>>> a time-domain reflectometer as well?
>> 
>> Bugger-all, most likely. It's amazing what lame excuses a genuine
>> gearhead can come up with to justify buying the shiny new gizmo they saw
>> on the front cover of the latest issue of "Whatsit World".
> 
> Talking to yerself again. Loonel==KY-MAN=="Rhonda and Massive Prong
> Stalker".

Oh, my Goddess. Every time I think you've reached the nadir of
intelligence, you surprise me with whole new vistas of stupid.