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Mmm I do actually love pear drops, might need to try a bit of banana / pear action, not tried either yet! nice one

Hmmmmm... yeeah I got a XL380L, maybe I'm not reading it right... It was on the 200? setting, which is the lowest resistance setting, and definitely reads about 77 in the end, so I take it that translates as 77?? and not 7.7? or something, haha?

Aye man I'm just sending this thing back!! Just tested the probes again to see if I was really reading it right; kept them touching & hands still for literally about 2 - 3 minutes, & it still didn't settle on a number! jumped everywhere between 111.6 & 7.4, and everywhere in between (the 40's, 50's & 60's came up a lot, maybe it's a rock&roll meter!)

It's prob just a bit dodgy, I'll just get them to send a replacement.. and not chuck out those batteries yet just in case..! I am pretty lucky anyway, I'll PM ya..

Oh hey so I'm not gonna know if my old 510 connector works, dammit!! Wanted to check it Before I build a thing round it rather than after.. but if the meter is sick then no such luck! I'll just stick with maintaining my luckiness

oh, and yep.. had to read a tutorial on meters haha, but in the end I got them plugged in the right bits, hehe

Hey Greg, dya know I'm not really sure that this multimeter is working very well?!  Just to add a bit of excitement into the mix... or maybe I'm really just an electron-repellent..!!  Tried what you said, but on every single one of the resistance settings (200?, 2k?, 20k?, 200k?, 2M?) the multimeter read '1', and that was the reading both when the probes were touching the pin & outer brass, but also when the probes were floating about in the air touching nothing because I hadn't touched them to the thing yet!  As far as I understand, the reading of '1' on resistance settings means that the meter is overloaded & the resistance setting should be increased.. but there's no way that nothing but air in between the probes should give a resistance bigger than 2M? surely!!?

Sorry to make this so confusing.  The meter is new but was prob the cheapest off ebay.  I've tried the continuity test (beep setting) with the same probe points as above:

There is a beep when the +ve probe is touching the base of the centre pin & the -ve probe is touching the upper bit of the brass tube the atty screws onto; even if I move the -ve probe up onto the actual side of the atomiser there's still a beep!  So I guess that means the centre pin is definitely shorting on another part near it? - although the beep when I touch the two probes together (away from the mod completely, to test the continuity test) is quite inconsistent, mostly it beeps but sometimes not...

I guess this all means that there's definitely a short from the centre pin onto the rest of the body.  This was done with the Davide atty on, not even the Aerotank.  Don't worry I think I'm just going to have to give up with it & send it on to someone who enjoys the great problems of the universe   Having already made the centre pin head smaller, I don't know what else I could do to stop it shorting! 

If you could just let me know if I'm correct with my assumptions that would be great, I don't want to lose my first mod-baby if there is something I could do to make it better

Thanks, L

Thanks 300, I'll try & get a 0-ring or improvise with some innertube or something to get it to stay in.. don't know how to change the title of the thread?

Hiya 300, yep that's the exact one. I had read that conversation on Fasttech before but didn't really have a clue what they were on about!! Makes a wee bit more sense now; the pin does have a spring, in between the pin head and the insulating black ring. So if you hold it by the black ring you can push the pin up & down, but that doesn't stop the whole pin part (black ring included) falling out. However it is firmly held in horizontally, it can't move that way, it's just if there's no battery in it can fall down into the tube. When a battery is in & it's all set up, there's nowhere the pin can go really. It seems like it probably is connecting with just the +ve atty pin, so still I don't have a clue..

This is the mystery of the month, this is!! Mega thanks to everyone

PS: the spring loaded pin doesn't seem to have much of a function being springy...

PS 2: there's no spring in anywhere with the battery, is that an issue?