LOL! I blasted the little 10A glass fuse in my favorite VOM the other day.
Did some PV current testing and then came back indoors, where I wanted
to plug back into an outlet, to watch my erratic AC line voltage.
Forgot to move the red lead back over the V hole.
It tried to measure 9 Zillion Amps from the wall socket.. But only for 2msec..
~L~E~D
When I looked under the double-sided sticky tape at the PCB, I saw some solder bumps.
Thru-hole stuff. In Ohms mode, I compared the end connections via the + & -
wires with the bumps on a good segment.
One of the end bumps showed open. Hit it with my little soldering iron and presto-fixo.
Trouble Shooting in Stereo. Is when you have one circuit that went bad,
right next to an identical circuit that works. You just put the VOM - on the power supply - and
probe the same connections on both circuits until you see what's different.
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