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ChadTower:

Dammit.  I'm playing around with an NES motherboard when all of a sudden my DMM starts buzzing like crazy.  It is registering shorts in continuity mode even with the leads a foot apart.   :banghead: :banghead:

Stuff like this happens to everyone, I assume.

danny_galaga:

nope...

horseboy:
Oh boy that was nice. I bet nobody else thought of that gem first.  ::)

Glaine:
While I don't know what a DMM is, I tried repairing an arcade power supply fan once and had the new wires twisted up, plugged it in to test it and an exposed wire touched the metal case and fried it. Lucky I wasn't touching the metal at the time.

And another time I was given a flat screen monitor that the back light had gone out on, I took the screen element out and tried to power it on with power only going to the screen so if that worked I could make one of those cool sun-lit flat screens. Apparently power going only to the monitor was too much for it (with no power going trying to go to the light) so it went up in smoke on my desk. Good times.

ChadTower:

DMM = digital multimeter

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