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Warning: stopped using my analog meter for dryer thermostats and the ohm readings finally make sense
Swapped my old needle meter for a $60 clamp meter with a real ohm setting while chasing a dryer that kept tripping the breaker. On the analog one, a thermostat reading 8k ohms looked dead to me, but the digital showed it drifting between 8k and 12k, which told me the contacts were shot. Took me two minutes to swap it instead of the 45 minutes I burned pulling the whole harness apart on the previous call. The boss at my shop still swears by the needle sweep for caps, but for thermostats the digital kills it. Any of you still running analog for small ohm checks or have you all moved on?
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