Multimeters

Google them.

You might want to repost this over on

sci.electronics.repair

to get some real answers and a feel for how often you need or might use the features.

: 1. Conductance This is when a guy in a tuxedo gets up in front of the orchestra, and waves the little black thing that is on the end of the VOM wire. While people are out on the dance floor. He's the conduct dance.

: 2. Motor Drive Measurement Every computer has a C drive. Well, some have motor drives also. You put one lead in your A-drive, and another in the disk drive. The meter tells you how much motor drive you have.

: 3. Smoothing When you surf the web, you click from picture to picture. Web page to web page. By smoothing, you make all the web pages look the same. This is a computer function. Usually they just look like a blank screen, but that's smoothing for you.

Thank you for the brevity. Very concise and too the point.

-- Oren

"I didn?t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you."

Conductance is the inverse of resistance. calculated as 1/ohms=mhos

Mho? isn't that what she screams in the bedroom?

They changed "Mhos" to "Siemens". I wish they hadn't (naming it after someone, rather than using something actually meaningful).

How do you feel about the change of cycles-per-second to Hertz?

One of the great pieces of scientific humor was the units for conductance as mho, with a symbol of an upside down omega [ohms symbol].

It has been ruined. I believe conductance is now Siemens. Who the hell ever heard of Siemens. I was depressed for weeks.

-- bud--

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:44:27 -0500, "HeyBub" wrote Re Re: Multimeters:

Even after all these years, I'm still annoyed by it. Why name something like that after a car rental company? :-)

I only heard about this just now, but I'm going to continue to call them mhos. Just like I call the stadiums in Baltimore by Oriole Park and Ravens Stadium. Even though iiuc they never had those names, and the previous baseball stadium was called Memorial Stadium**. Same thing for other cities.

I'm not bound by their rules. And I'm also not bound to learn new names when other people want new names.

I also call the inverse of a volt a larry and the inverse of an amp a curlie.

And Pluto is the ninth planet from the sun. If there are hundreds of others that big that don't get noticed, a) I don't know that, and b) it's their problem.

Are they still using the same units (name change only)?

One time I heard of a unit of closeness, called a retem.

Remember Serutan spelled backwards is Natures

and Tums spelled backwards is smut.

Then there is Evian bottled water.

-- bud--

You mean; Like watts; after James Watt? Or volts after Volta, amps after Ampere, farads after Faraday, curies after Marie Curie, roentgens of radioctivity after Roentgen, magnetic flux after Gauss,. frequencies after Hertz, pasteurization of food after Pasteur, etc. etc. hard to think of many units that are NOT named after some researcher! Maybe we could think and Fess and den come up with a few missing ones?. And of course we have the decibel (Bel) after Alexander Graham Bell of telephone inventing fame!

The farad is the SI unit of the capacitance of an electrical system, that is, its capacity to store electricity. It is a rather large unit as defined and is more often used as a microfarad. It is named after the English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867).

The hertz is the SI unit of the frequency of a periodic phenomenon. One hertz indicates that 1 cycle of the phenomenon occurs every second. For most work much higher frequencies are needed such as the kilohertz [kHz] and megahertz [MHz]. It is named after the German physicist Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-94).

The joule is the SI unit of work or energy. One joule is the amount of work done when an applied force of 1 newton moves through a distance of 1 metre in the direction of the force.It is named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule (1818-89).

The newton is the SI unit of force. One newton is the force required to give a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of 1 metre per second per second. It is named after the English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727).

The ohm is the SI unit of resistance of an electrical conductor. Its symbol, is the capital Greek letter 'omega'. It is named after the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854).

The pascal is the SI unit of pressure. One pascal is the pressure generated by a force of 1 newton acting on an area of 1 square metre. It is a rather small unit as defined and is more often used as a kilopascal [kPa]. It is named after the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-62).

The volt is the SI unit of electric potential. One volt is the difference of potential between two points of an electical conductor when a current of 1 ampere flowing between those points dissipates a power of 1 watt. It is named after the Italian physicist Count Alessandro Giuseppe Anastasio Volta (1745-1827).

The watt is used to measure power or the rate of doing work. One watt is a power of 1 joule per second. It is named after the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736-1819

More some other time .................... ! There's bound to be a Russian or two in among those Europeans!

And Stroh's spelled backwards is shorts.

Try spelling "live" backward.

Hmmm, Ohm is a name too. Now how about admittance?