Dangerous multimeter : MASTECH M890G / M890G2 (aka DC Electronics DC03)

[guy48065]

I reckon most of us will have met or know electricians who have horror stories to tell...

Entered the field while still in high school in 1978, working for a company specializing in field service of DC drives.  Working on live circuits was the only way to troubleshoot so...
An experienced co-worker suffered an exploding meter & arc-flash burns that sent him to the hospital for skin grafts to his face & forearms.  It wasn't that he didn't know what he was doing--it was the union electrician he was assigned to that connected the leads to the wrong inputs.  Shit does happen.

[CJay]

No joke at all, I saw an "electrician" doing this....measuring voltage on power cables by touching them with his finger and not been injured.

And smiling, he said: here, that's 220V and the other wire, only 110V.

What about safety rules ? 

Seen that done by an electrician who specialised in fitting out machine shops.

[001]

Hi
Why so panic?

I still use it
after 18 years it WORKS!