MattsAwesomeStuff
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Still testing cells with the probe leads on your multimeter like a *** caveman? Spend $0.75 on ebay and build yourself one of these instead with some scrap wood:
How to build Voltage Swiper:
1 - Wire LED panel volt meter to two leaf-spring-like strips of steel, on a piece of wood. Put them underneath the wood in a channel or something obviously, not dragged across the surface.
2 - It's not rocket science, scrap wood, soup cans, voltmeter and screws. You just want something you can slide a battery through sideways so that the leaf springs drag across the positive and negative sides and tell you the voltage.
3 - Clamp/bolt it to the table so you can measure dozens of battery voltages at a time, fast, without holding stupid multimeter leads and needing 3 hands.
4 - Test voltages (especially ballpark voltages for sorting) super fast.
If you're left handed then switch the voltmeter to the other side so your hand isn't covering the panel meter all the time.
If you build one, post a picture of it here, I'm curious to see it and hear feedback.
How to build Voltage Swiper:
1 - Wire LED panel volt meter to two leaf-spring-like strips of steel, on a piece of wood. Put them underneath the wood in a channel or something obviously, not dragged across the surface.
2 - It's not rocket science, scrap wood, soup cans, voltmeter and screws. You just want something you can slide a battery through sideways so that the leaf springs drag across the positive and negative sides and tell you the voltage.
3 - Clamp/bolt it to the table so you can measure dozens of battery voltages at a time, fast, without holding stupid multimeter leads and needing 3 hands.
4 - Test voltages (especially ballpark voltages for sorting) super fast.
If you're left handed then switch the voltmeter to the other side so your hand isn't covering the panel meter all the time.
If you build one, post a picture of it here, I'm curious to see it and hear feedback.