On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:04:37 PM UTC-4, Soartech wrote:
A certain small percentage of electronic devices are subject to "infant mortality". Sorry you were the unlucky one that time. All high reliability electronics (jet engine fuel controls for example) are subjected to a lengthy burn-in period in a temperature chamber to weed out bad parts.

So I could hook up a new meter up a battery and put it in the oven (on warm) for a few hours to promote "infant mortality" before I go to the trouble of installing it? If it fails, I return it as defective.