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That $200 circuit tester I ignored for a year finally saved my ass
Had a buddy from the Gulfstream shop keep telling me to buy a Fluke 1587 for troubleshooting. I thought my old Klein was fine and he was just wasting money. Last month I got a weird intermittent comm issue on a Global 6000 at my hangar in Phoenix. The insulation test caught a chafed wire that my regular meter missed completely because it only showed up under load. After 3 hours of chasing ghosts, that one tool found the problem in 5 minutes. Anyone else have a tool they were dead wrong about?
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william_torres5mo ago
Hang on, a chafed wire that only showed up under load? That's wild, I didn't even know that was a thing.
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the_elliot5mo ago
only showed up under load" is the part that gets me. @william_torres it's like when a weird noise in your car only happens when you turn left going uphill... stuff breaks in ways that sneak up on you until you push it just right. Life does that more than ppl realize.
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cameronn625mo ago
You know, I used to roll my eyes at stuff like that, thought it was just people making excuses. But then my buddy's truck started dying on the highway only when he had a full tank of gas and was going uphill. Turned out to be a vapor lock thing that just didn't happen any other time. So yeah, @the_elliot's left turn uphill comparison is dead on, those sneaky breaks are real.
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