Shocking

[davelx]

Many years ago when I was young anf foolish (now I'm old and foolish) I was tweeking an RF Linear amplifier that was boosting the output of a Wireless Set No, 19 in the school CCF signals radio room.

These things ran off a bank of metal cased float charged 12V accumulators, which provided a convenient seat whilst working on the kit

I pushed the transmit button, then reached towards the the trimmer near the tank coil with my screwdriver.

The next thing I knew I was on the floor 15 feet away, against the wall! No adverse effects, fortunately!

 

[JohnD]

I've got a different stort of Steinel, it has a column of LEDs for common voltages, plus an ac/dc indicating LED.

No battery, no moving parts, nothing to adjust, not much to go wrong.
It is not as fat as the usual UK one. Just a thin probe and a fat probe with the LEDsi

 

[RF Lighting]

 

[tim west]

I've got a different stort of Steinel, it has a column of LEDs for common voltages, plus an ac/dc indicating LED.

No battery, no moving parts, nothing to adjust, not much to go wrong.
It is not as fat as the usual UK one. Just a thin probe and a fat probe with the LEDsi

Perhaps its was a fault with only the battery ones?
the type i mean were the ones where you pressed the buttons whilst holding the probes together and then all leds would light followed by them cascading down from the top to off.

 

[JohnD]

thinner than yours

 

[Adam_151]

You're not going totry and tell me thats GS38 compliant are you John?

 

[JohnD]

nope

very handy though

As far as I know it was one of their early designs. I got it some years ago, possibly in Germany.