And the "I don't blow fuses, because I don't measure hight current" argument doesn't work for most people either - I tend to blow 10A fuses when I was INTENDING to measure voltage, while the meter leads were still plugged into the current socket... ![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xfacepalm.gif.pagespeed.ic.EBDwh1hCfo.png)
If you switched the rotary dial to read voltage but forgot the probes on current, definitely Gossens and Brymens will help - Gossens physically prevent switching to the wrong range, and Brymens beep frantically.
If, however, you simply put the probes without paying attention to the settings on the DMM, then I guess there is no mechanism to prevent that...
I am from a time when fail safe mechanisms were absolutely non-existent and attention and double-checking were your only protection... Time of the analog VOMs where an inverted polarity, an overvoltage/overcurrent or voltage applied on ohms range were mostly fatal to the equipment... I am glad these things exist nowadays...
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