Re: How does one find employees, including trainees?

["Tommy" <tommy at leesecurity dot net>]

I would have to disagree. checking continuity is a perfect use of ohm's
law. just because you aren't plugging numbers into a calculator dosen't
mean you aren't using the formula. how can you use an instrument if you
do not understand the feedback it is giving you.
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cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Tommy wrote:
>
> > if you ever use a meter for much
> > besides a paperweight you have been kneedeep in ohm's law.
>
> Unlikely.
>
> More likely the technician was the end user of the pre-packaged
> implementation worked out be the designer of the meter.
>
> Using an ohm meter to measure continuity, or even to measure a
> resistance and guestimate how far to a fault does not imply using
> ohm's law.
>
> Now if you measure two of voltage, current, or resistance, and use
> those to determine the missing third, then you are using ohms law.
> But really, how often do you do that?
>
> And no, don't delve into what the meter is doing internally, unless
> you are breadboarding up a meter from movements and shunts everytime
> you want to take a measurement.  We know the engineer who designed the
> meter knows ohms law - the question is if the technician using the
> meter uses ohms law with any frequency?

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