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With only two weeks left to go, why was a multimeter completing the telemetry circuit?

• Titan2189 3y ago
  So that it could be quickly and easily unplugged
• kragen 3y ago
  maybe it was measuring the current rather than the voltage as he thought, which would require putting it in series with the circuit
  • spfzero 3y ago
    That stood out to me as well when I read the article.
    • CamperBob2 3y ago
      The multimeter in the photo has the probes plugged into the volts/ohms jack, though. Maybe it was a different meter. I figured this was going to be a story about trying to measure voltage with the meter set up on the 10A current range.
      • kragen 3y ago
        yeah i don't think he took a photo of the multimeter to use in the article before unplugging it. he didn't yet know it was important
• elteto 3y ago
  Why would you not use a multimeter two weeks before launch? The two things are orthogonal to each other.
• deleted 3y ago
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