My CTC-16XL Project.

[Yamamaya42]

I don't believe it.
I have started to try and check resistors in my set. (it sucks that most cant be tested in-circuit)
started checking and ran into trouble right at the start.
AGC line r36, 2.2 meg could not measure it with this cheap RS meter I have.. Off-scale high/ almost reads 20m on the 20m setting (no other higher) it cant be THAT far off

So it's
A: the cheap meter is lying to me and cant be trusted, or B: it really IS over 10x too high..
taking this resistor to work to check with a $400 fluke I have there.
Also getting another cheap autorange meter that goes up to 200m.

[Rocket]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

I don't believe it.
I have started to try and check resistors in my set. (it sucks that most cant be tested in-circuit)
started checking and ran into trouble right at the start.
AGC line r36, 2.2 meg could not measure it with this cheap RS meter I have.. Off-scale high/ almost reads 20m on the 20m setting (no other higher) it cant be THAT far off

So it's
A: the cheap meter is lying to me and cant be trusted, or B: it really IS over 10x too high..
taking this resistor to work to check with a $400 fluke I have there.
Also getting another cheap autorange meter that goes up to 200m.

I have also ran into this myself a few time. I have had some resistors in a few of my old zenith radio sets that were meg omhs instead of low k's

also a while back I got this Klein meter, it isn't as nice as a 400 buck fluke, but its close. I love it a lot more than my old 20 dollar digital I had and it can test up to 1000vdc/vac and I have found that handy working on some of my old radios.

check it out, its just under 100 bucks

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...e?ie=UTF8&th=1