Homebrew PCBs

> > 
> > It seems i can't get rotrary switches with enough
> > positions.
> > Would be nice to be able to just make them how i
> > want.
> > After all it works in meters...
> And other place, a rotary switch is generally not cost
> effective, but it is the most intuitive, at least for
> those of us in the older generation. The  youngsters
> may have grown up with bottom remotes etc, but I still
> have a few tv sets with rotary volume and channel
> select. EVen Fluke tried to go away from the rotary
> switch in the late 80's.... the product failed. They
> tried again with a lower priced model in the late
> nineties. I don't think its doing to well sales wise.

The fluke meters were just too feature poor.  I don't need much for 
field work, voltage, continunity and current readings from contorl 
signals.  But they didn't offer 4-20mA as an input when they came out.

The scaled down units had less features than the radioshack models at 
the time.

I remeber looking for an AMP unit at about the same time.  It had a 
smaller case and digital display, but no one carried it.

Dave