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Originally Posted by bigaudioal
Battery powered multi-meter. Set it to measure VAC on the 20 setting. Connected the ground lead of the meter to chassis and with the other lead still in my hand, not touching anything, meter was reading 4 VAC. Then touched it to pin 3 and that's when normal static in audio faded out and then saw smoke. Tried it twice with same result just to be sure.
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Your meter, does it measure current and voltage, and have 3 terminals to attach test leads to? It should not be possible for a meter to cause smoke...Unless you had the 2 leads plugged into the high current measurement terminals of the meter (those terminals are shorted together with a short length of thick current sense wire).
Always measure voltage with the leads plugged into the voltage terminals on the meter....I made the mistake of measuring line voltage with the leads in the meter's high current measurement socket once and fried my meter!