In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes:
In article ,
Ian Jackson wrote:
If it could be used on a variety of voltages (120V, 200V - in Hong Kong,
220) and 230/240V), that meter could be extremely useful.

Interesting point. As someone else has said, the accuracy was probably
abysmal, but should have been adequate to tell between 1xx and 2xx
volts.

Quite. it serves no purpose in the UK since it couldn't resolve any
likely voltage variations - even for those so anal they wanted to know.

(Why do [some] people insist on using that term - anal - for other
people who want to know something they don't, or similar? I find it
unpleasant. And no, I'm not one of those referred to in this case.)
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*Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
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What equipment that's out of it hasn't had enough of? (Perhaps an
English version of a kilter?)
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

If it's pretentious, then at least it's not the sort that wears a horned helmet
and shrieks about trolls. - Stuart Maconie in Radio Times, 14-20 November 2009.