Inexpensive small analogue meters are like, only 5 or 6  bucks these days.
two gallons of gas about.

On 7/8/2012 11:48 AM, neil n wrote:
> Good to know.
>
> Since I moved the AFM wiper to a new portion of resistive strip, I
> kind of assumed there would be no drop outs. Besides; moving the wiper
> did not change how the engine ran.
>
> Sure wish I still had my old $9 Radio Shack analogue meter!
>
> Neil.
>
>
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> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:35 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> At 02:10 PM 7/8/2012, neil n wrote:
>>> With my DVOM, I'd see the value change at a more or less "even" rate
>>> when slowly and evenly moving the vane.
>>
>> The ideal tool for this is a scope.  Analog meter with a twitchy needle is
>> next.  I'd rate most DMMs essentially useless for it unless they have a
>> fast-responding bar-graph display.  The normal 2-3 updates per second really
>> can't show you little dropouts unless you're moving the vane with a
>> micrometer screw or something like that, .....
>> I'm going to make a wild guess that
>> a typical DMM is only actually looking at the input less than a quarter of
>> the time.
>
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