[Amps] Bird 43 Blown / Repair ?

[Steve Thompson]

K7XQ wrote:

>Hello All,
> I think I made a mistake yesterday during the EME Contest. I
>accidentally 
>left a 500 watt slug in the meter and keyed the power meter with over 
>1 kW and I think I blew out the meter. I tried acouple more slugs 
>and no movement of the meter is no longer found. 
>
>  
>
I wonder if that's likely to have blown the meter. The meter fsd is 
30uA, the extra power will probably result in a current about twice that 
- I can't imagine 60uA burning a meter movement out. Maybe repeated 
hammering on the end stop might damage something, but it has to be worth 
checking the movement. A 1.5V battery and 100k resistor should give 
about 50% reading. -ve is the chassis and you can pick up the +ve on the 
connector tag where the slug plugs in, or pop the back off and go to the 
meter terminals directly.

Steve