Recommend me a MultiMeter

[smason]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

I love my Fluke 77. Have had it since about 1987.
Never a problem. Well one problem, caused by a cat-fight but turned out to be an easy repair.

There's one on Ebay for the low buy-it-now price of $395.00 I don't love 'em THAT much...

[skafiskafnjak]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

My recommendation (price&quality&long life):

Soldering station: Goot PX-201 $49
http://www.howardelectronics.com/goot/px201.html

Multimeter: Fluke 12 (get used one on Ebay $50), dont invest money il those no-name brands, one mistake and you can damage that meter. Fluke you can not damage, its well protected and you can always resale it!

ESR meter: Get analog ESR meter like MUL-3333 $50, its faster to work with than digital meter.

Advanced & expensive meters for professionals:

Capacitor testing: LC 103 Sencore, BK 897B, Hioki 3501.

Multimeter:

GMC instruments; Gossen Metrawatt) MetraHit E-Tech
or Fluke 77IV, 87V or 28
also amazing brands that would last forever: Hioki, Kyoristu, Yokogawa

Soldering: JBC (the best), ERSA, Metcal

[retiredcaps]

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Nice score it never hurts to have an extra meter. Especially when you want to measure voltage and current at the same time or want to spot check the accuracy of a meter.

I believe it is the original 75. It doesn't say 75-2 or 75-3.

There are six Fluke 77-3 on ebay right now (same seller) all around $22 bids. Auction expires in about 12 hours. I'm curious to see their final bid prices.

[Krankshaft]

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Nice score it never hurts to have an extra meter. Especially when you want to measure voltage and current at the same time or want to spot check the accuracy of another meter.

[retiredcaps]

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A very late update since my post back in May 2010.

I bought an used working Meterman 15XP for 99 cents off ebay. It has worked great in the last 6 months.

For all those Fluke recommendations, I managed to get a working Fluke 75 (probably 20 years old) for $20 CDN locally. I just got it a couple of days ago and haven't used it much yet.

The only thing I don't like about the Fluke 75, so far, is the very spongy range switch. The Meterman has a very positive and tactile range switch.

[fuhrer]

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go for fluke.or tektronix tx-3. i have these in my shops and they never failed.

[fuhrer]

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devid21...your mentioned stuff are all bullshit..ah well,your also bullshit so they will suit you fine

[romansroad]

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Devid the troll has taken a permanent vacation.

Thank you.

[Krankshaft]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

Devid the troll has taken a permanent vacation.

The other thread was closed due to all of his pollution in it if you wish to continue discussing DIY ESR meters feel free to open another thread.

[kc8adu]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

POOF!
troll gone.
ROFLOL!

Don't worry guys, devid21 will look like my profile picture soon enough...

[MixMasta]

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Don't worry guys, devid21 will look like my profile picture soon enough...

[PCBONEZ]

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You know English words and spelling but your grammar makes your posts meaningless.
.

[devid21]

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After slogging through the myriad of advertising links in this post from a certain new member, I find myself asking......where are the moderators with the long overdue eject button?

And on that you can say anything,the champion?

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

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It isn't advertising. The moderators closed the other thread in which he spammed a lot, but since this one is still here there must be nothing wrong with it.

And honestly, there's nothing wrong with Chinese products. The Chinese have the technology to build at ANY level of quality you wish for. It just depends on how much you are willing to pay. I don't regret one bit spending $80-something for my Uni-T UT60E instead of paying almost double for a Fluke that only has half the features. And yes Flukes can be had for cheaper than $150... but not in this country. To top it off, the frequency meter of the UT60E which is rated for 10MHz actually works (tested) up to 50 Meg, while keeping the same degree of accuracy (0.1%) printed in the manual! My only complaint with it is the slow autoranging, but it can be overriden if it's not required.

[romansroad]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

After slogging through the myriad of advertising links in this post from a certain new member, I find myself asking......where are the moderators with the long overdue eject button?

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

Read the last page.

Why would I want to downgrade from my Simpson to something like that?

[devid21]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

Read the last page.

[kikkoman]

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amprobes are made in taiwan.

[devid21]

Re: Recommend me a MultiMeter

Yup, still you're still a nitwit.


The fact you bought it from Germany hardly means it is made there.
It is a 'white box' part and most likely Chinese or TW manufactured.
It is re-distributed by Amprobe, Wavtek, and Pomona Electronics [probably others too] under their own names.
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http://www.amprobe.com/cgi-bin/pdc/v...id=1&type=elec
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http://www.elexp.com/tst_38xr.htm
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[url]http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/986812-kit-meterman-37xr-dmm-test-kit-pm1.html[/url

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KYORITSU has factories in Thailand since the 80's and you don't know where it was made.
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http://www.kew-ltd.co.jp/en/profile/corporatedata.html

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nitwit
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http://www.amprobe.eu/de_de/showproduct/25/37XR-A/
http://www.amprobe.eu/de_de/content/Kontakt/
Now Europe is sold KYORITSU-made in Japan.
If you want,i´ll send you pictures.

[larrymoencurly]

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Harbor Freight, baby! Regularly $3.49, but because I had a coupon, for 88 cents I got 3 of them plus 3 paint brushes. Finest quality -- no fuse for the 10A scale, and one of the meter probe tips came out when I pulled it out of an AC outlet (but it's real secure now). OTOH accuracy was really good, always matching my Fluke 73 on ohms and DC volts, within 0.2%, and the viewing angle is wider.