/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/agilent-34461a-road-test-2-of-3-everyday-usePart 1 Part 2 (You&#39;re there) Part 3 So your Agilent 34461A is sitting on your desk all set-up and running. What now?Well, now you use it. Lets go through a few of the most common ways that you might use your new multimeter.Each of the six white...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/agilent-34461a-road-test-2-of-3-everyday-useMon, 02 Dec 2013 10:27:07 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d5e43740-9dbe-4fae-ad7c-d564e351a516tassieengineer0<p>Since this post has gone up, I have also used the multimeter in fixing a small LED based Christmas tree that had suddenly stopped working.</p><p>After first checking the voltage across the battery pack, I swapped to continuity mode to see where the problem was.</p><p>First I noticed that there was a break somewhere between the battery compartment and a resistor in the battery pack. The only thing between these two was the switch.</p><p>After levering off the switch cover I checked various parts and finally found that there was a tiny break between the metal tab that the battery touched, and the switch itself. This was almost invisible to the naked eye. A small tweak, and they were once again linked and the tree lit up <span>[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-d5e43740-9dbe-4fae-ad7c-d564e351a516/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]</span></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16555&AppID=13&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">