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Dropped $400 on a fancy timing light I barely use
Bought one of those digital timing lights with all the bells and whistles last year. Figured it would save me time on the old Honda engines I work on. Turns out my old dial-back Advance timing light does the same job just fine. Anyone else buy a tool that seemed great but ended up being overkill for what you actually do?
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paul_thompson6714d ago
Nah man you got it backwards, that fancy light probably saved you hours you didn't even know you were wasting. Dial backs drift out of calibration and then you're chasing ghosts while the digital one just spits out the right number every time.
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aaron67714d ago
Not quite true about the drift though. My old Fluke 87V dial is 12 years old and still within spec. I checked it against a calibrated source last month. The digital ones do drift too. Just differently. Thermal drift is a real thing on those optocouplers.
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