@FMLCat Well... chances are good the meter isn't fused and it happened for such a brief period of time that the amount of heat in the meter's circuitry isn't critically high. Typically, the ammeter circuit is built for very high current handling.
In normal operating conditions, your prospective short-circuit current is likely to be well over 1,000 amps.
Those shorts may have driven multiple kilowatts' worth of power through the meter.
I've done thermal imaging on my multimeter under sustained high-current usage in ammeter mode and know for a fact that it's designed to withstand high current - there's a wire shunt protruding from the PCB where most of the heat goes. Opening it up also reveals several trimpots; I'm not touching those pots without a service manual and proper calibration equipment.
The milliammeter/microammeter is shot on this DMM after putting high voltage DC through it (flash capacitor) but the rest of the meter is just fine and I use it almost every day.
Cheap Craftsman (Sears house brand) auto-ranging 4000-counts DMM. Had it for at least eight years (and likely almost a decade). It's never really let me down.
As for shorting an automotive battery on an ammeter... the most immediate risk is that of fire. The meter will catch fire in a matter of seconds if this kind of short, possibly exceeding 10 kW, is sustained.
The battery could vent as well.
In fact, with these sorts of currents, on cheaper fused meters, the fuse could explosively fail rather than blow cleanly.
One of my biggest complaints with older versions of this hex editor is that it's a 32-bit program, preventing large modifications (only parts of files are loaded into memory, but large changes and copy-paste operations fail with "Out of memory"). The new version is 64-bit and doesn't suffer from this issue.
So, I decided to do something seriously outlandish and throw a Virtual Tape Library (VTL) in the Trunk of my Range Rover Evoque and now have a very awesome 20 PETABYTES of Tape Storage in my trunk for music on my journeys. [Fingers crossed Tape doesn't care too much about vibrations... hopefully ...
About 50 full lifetimes of uncompressed audio-- okay, sure. I wonder if your vehicle will be controllable with that many spinning platters. — Spehro Pefhany2 hours ago
@Bob I have no way to confirm other than my ears, but it seems like my Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 bluetooth chip (probably mini-pcie) in my Alienware 13 R3 + Win10 v1709 is doing AptX LL natively
