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Old 20th Jun 2018, 12:55 am   #65
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Default Re: Meter Suggestions for Basic Alignment/Calibration

But you can't measure someone's needs or passion for their hobby by your own opinion. You could spend an eternity telling someone they don't need to have spent the money on a Bentley when a Ford would have done.

So I dont think it's a waste of money for home hobby use, I think it's money well spent if you're serious about the measurements you're making, especially when calibration adjusting a load of Avos.

It would be entirely different if you only had a meter for checking batteries every now and then.

If one is serious about a hobby, then why not know to a traceable standard how accurately a meter is measuring?

As you say, it may not need adjusting at all, but the calibration is only a check anyway. And unless you have it calibrated, if it were to drift by a factor of two, how would you know?
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