Re: How does one find employees, including trainees?

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

Tommy wrote:
> 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.
> --
>

I didn't ask them what their thought process was, but I assumed they
used the meter as you would a battery and bulb or a buzzer continuity
tester. Relative brightness of the bulb or tone of the buzzer gives
some indication, similar to a meter ..... yet you don't have to use
...... or even know that there is a formula, to figure out if the
circuit is good or not.

But anyway these guys would use a meter for continuity and for reading
voltage on a circuit .... I guess because they knew they were supposed
to get a reading of 12. If they didn't get that, they knew "something"
was wrong. Sometimes I had to help but not often. They wouldn't have
ever tried to take a current reading. I doubt they would have
understood what they were looking at or even know what to expect.

These guys had been around for a pretty long time and were good
installers and could usually locate any problems that occured in an
installation. That's all that I expected from them. They knew there was
an Ohms Law. They just didn't know what it was. Maybe they figured if
they broke it, they would get a summons.