K7XQ wrote:
>Hello All,
> I think I made a mistake yesterday during the EME Contest. I
>accidentally
>left a 500 watt slug in the meter and keyed the power meter with over
>1 kW and I think I blew out the meter. I tried acouple more slugs
>and no movement of the meter is no longer found.
>
>
>
I wonder if that's likely to have blown the meter. The meter fsd is
30uA, the extra power will probably result in a current about twice that
- I can't imagine 60uA burning a meter movement out. Maybe repeated
hammering on the end stop might damage something, but it has to be worth
checking the movement. A 1.5V battery and 100k resistor should give
about 50% reading. -ve is the chassis and you can pick up the +ve on the
connector tag where the slug plugs in, or pop the back off and go to the
meter terminals directly.
Steve
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