Heathkit EK-1 Basic Electricity Course Multimeter: History, Demonstration, Theory @youtuuba

Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

In this video, I continue my recent series of documentaries on vintage volt-ohm-ammeters with the Heathkit EK-1, which was actually a basic electronics course for children, where at the end of the process they would have assembled a basic VOM and learned how to use it around the home.

Here are the timeline markers for each section of the video:
00:00 Introduction & History
02:45 Overview
05:45 Demonstration
24:39 Internal views
27:09 Reassembly & Beauty Shot
27:57 Overview of the course book and manual
39:09 Circuit theory

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