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I think I will use my Simpson 260 on this and go ahead and make a permanent and eventually fused connection point. Sounds simple; break the conductor grounding the cathode pin and run two pieces of wire to put the ammeter in series with the circuit.
I have a digital meter with the current fuses blown out of it, so I suspect someone without training in properly using a meter got a hold of that one and checked some amperes in parallel. I was on another thread last night and someone was talking about checking current with a volt meter hooked in parallel. There are quite a few fundamentals of using meters that perhaps we should do another thread on. I think it would be a good thread where the right people could explain the often superior nature of the analog meter. An elaboration on the further pros of the VTVM would be good too.
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