Re: TDK 517 component - can anyone identify picture



Whoa, dude. I hope you show back up to see this, but this advice was SPOT ON. Amazing.

My meter's symptoms were the same, but for all modes except current measurement. I'd gone through the service manual, traced through checking components, checking for obvious signs of toast and I was coming up blank.

I had never heard of the failure mode you described, but it makes great sense for how the meter was behaving. The rotary switch contacts on the PCB setup a voltage divider which feeds...