VTVM Battery

[Neil Morrison]

Which issue of Radio Electronics?  I have most of mine back to the 60's.
Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Leonard [SMTP:rosinfumes at YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 4:46 PM
> To:   HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject:      Re: VTVM Battery
>
> --- Allen Bush <AE0Z at COMPUSERVE.COM> wrote:
> > Back when I worked at Heath in St. Joseph in the
> > late '70s I remember they
> > had a modification used "internally" in service
> > dept., etc. for eliminating
> > the 1.5v "C" cell that their common VTVM's used.  As
> > I recall, it consisted
> > of a diode, a resistor, and a capacitor.  It was
> > written up in one of
> > Heath's internal tech notes.  DOES ANYONE RECALL THE
> > PARTICULARS OF THIS
> > MOD?  It seems it may have affected performance a
> > bit on the lowest Ohms
> > scale (may have had to reset zero for that range?)
> > but otherwise worked
> > great.
> >
> > I would sure like to install this in the several
> > VTVM's I have, and others
> > might as well.
> >
> > Allen Bush, AE0Z
>
> Hi1
> To anyone who sends me an SASE  and one dollar I can
> supply a hard copy of such a circuit.Mine is from an
> old Radio Electronics magazine,and while I haven't
> tried it yet,
> I know someone who swears by it,not at it!The dollar
> covers my time traveling to the copy shop.etc.
> rosinfumes
> Malcolm Leonard
> 165 Canfield Ave.
> Warwick,RI 02889-8858
> >
> >
>
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