Using a Digital Voltmeter
July 18, 2021
Using a Digital Voltmeter
July 18, 2021
I am currently a provider of technical training and support in the electronic manufacturing industry. My prior training and work experience as a teacher, network administrator, web design, and instructional design make me well prepared to design it, develop it, and deliver it. I am a father of five, a US Army veteran, and I enjoy playing the guitar as well as performing in local community theater. 
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In this project, I introduce to you the Stagmeter 3000!!

The Stagmeter 3000 is a digital voltmeter that will read AC Current, AC Voltage, Resistance, and also has a tone generator. This short module gives you an opportunity to interact with the Stagmeter 3000 and an extension cord for helping to develop some basic voltmeter usage and concepts.

This project features:

  1. Interactive voltmeter dial – you must rotate the dial to the desired setting.
  2. Drag and Drop test leads
  3. Digital readout
  4. Homemade voltmeter, test leads, outlet, digital display, and extension cord graphics (PowerPoint crafted)
  5. Error conditions / warnings so you do not do them with a real meter.
  6. Error conditions must be corrected before continuing
  7. Non-linear design

Thank you to all those who take the time to view the project.

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Aug 14, 2022

Very well done! it was a great touch adding tone test mode and the resistance.  I also really like how the leads change based on the mode you are in in the multi meter. For the next version are you thinking about adding the ability to test all the leads not just the ground or across to ground?

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Aug 16, 2022

Thank you.

I went with the test points that I did on the plug in order to avoid overlapping drop areas. I would need to come up with another piece of equipment or something with probe positions that are spread out a little more to make it easier to work with more combinations.

I do have another voltmeter exercise that utilizes a test board with 8 test points. Every  combination of test point, meter dial, and polarity are accounted for.

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Jun 7, 2022

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I happen to find you here in elearning.adobe.com while searching for a hangman game and this source helped a lot.
But by looking around your many developments I came across this one and found something I was going crazy for a long time, what did you do to use GSAP??
I have a good understanding of GSAP which I have used in many HTML projects but never in Captivate and I’d like to know how’s that possible?, Not specifically for rotating a dial, but maybe for other basic animations triggered by a button like moving “X” object from point A to point B, scaling it, etc.

From now on, I’m going to keep an eye on you about everything you come up with next!

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Jun 8, 2022

There are a couple ways to go about using GSAP with your projects.

  1. You can add the libraries to the published project.
  2. You can add the libraries to the source files so that they are included for both preview and publish

I went the second route because I use it a lot and doing the post-publish thing becomes very tedious – especially when you want to test your projects.

In the post-publish option you can edit the index.html file (line 142) to grab your JS libraries. You will then need to put your libraries in the js folder.

In the second option you make the same edit to the index.html file but instead of editing the published one, you edit the one that Captivate grabs to do the publishing from your install folder.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2019 x64\HTML\index.html

var lJSFiles = [ @JSFILES_ARRAY , ‘assets/libraries/gsap.min.js’,’assets/libraries/Draggable.min.js’];

Then go into the assets folder at that same location and place your libraries in a folder called libraries.

You’ll need admin privileges in order to do this.

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Jun 8, 2022

Your guidance is perfect because I understood both approaches perfectly and I’m with with about going with the second option. If I’m not mistaken you don’t call the GSAP library using its CDN?
Will give it a whirl.

Thanks again!

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Jun 9, 2022

Correct – the actual .js file goes in the folder.

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May 17, 2022

I loved the gamification and interactivity in this. The visuals were amazing!

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