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All the old guys I work with swear by using a multimeter for everything, but I've been using a digital clamp meter for the last 6 months and I'm never going back
Started at a small shop in Tucson back in March and the lead tech, Mike, he's been doing avionics since the 90s. He told me I was wasting time with a clamp meter for troubleshooting a power issue on a Cessna 172. Said I needed to learn the 'real way' with a Fluke and probes. But man, I found a short in a wiring bundle in like 5 minutes with the clamp meter, no back probing or stripping wires. Mike just shook his head. Has anyone else run into this old school vs new tool debate? What do you guys use mostly now?
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kimreed23d ago
Did you bring a spare Fluke to his funeral too?
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josephl6723d ago
Clamp meters beat shoving probes into overloaded cannon plugs.
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Funny enough, I used to be one of those guys who swore by the old school method of shoving probes in there. Figured it was the only way to get a real reading, you know? Then I had a connector so crusted up and packed with pins I thought my meter was just broken. Spent an hour jamming probes in, getting nothing but flickering numbers. A buddy handed me his clamp meter and I read the whole harness in like five minutes. Completely changed my mind right then and there. Now I won't even touch a cannon plug without one.
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