[The Philpott]

Peter, i haven't enough experience with motors to assess the fan, but if you decide you will be using your Avo 7 we could assess any bugs with it next time you're passing.

Couple of things- you will have seen from the manual that Voltage and Current measurements can be taken without the batteries installed; the meter takes it's power from the circuit under test. (Measuring Resistance requires the internal power.)

I notice the yellow digital meter you used is basically the same as one of mine- and it may or may not be significant to note that the first two ranges to start randomly failing on mine were the 200 and 2000 ohm ranges.

Dave