For $200 you could buy enough Harbor Freight multimeters for at least
50 drops, perhaps a hundred if you catch the sales right. ;-)I have a couple of Fluke 77s, but bought sacrificial HF specials for my toolboxes and garage. I hide the Flukes so they don't sprout legs anymore (after I lost one).
-- Keith
Oh man, And I wanted to take one for a walk! :)
-- "I\'m never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken" Real Programmers Do things like this. http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
Look into his eyes, and you'll see what he's saying. :)
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Jim Stewart hath wroth:
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Nope. However, I do recall using Non-Linear Systems and Electro Instruments voltmeters, some with rotary stepper switches running a crude sucessive approximation A/D and using multiple rows of NE-2 lamps (not Nixie tubes) for indicators.
Today, I still mentally wait for the chattering of the steppers to subside before taking a reading. Old bad habits never die.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Rotties sometimes don't look at you while barking. When that happens and their neck hair is up, oh boy ...
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Too bad my utterly ferocious Maltese
-Le Chaud Lapin-
Le Chaud Lapin snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com posted to sci.electronics.design:
At that price range i presume that it is a handheld. I have a Tek that serves me well. If you can realign the zebra connector i (think i) have a 77 you can have. (no box, no case, no probes, just the "holster")
David L. Jones snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com posted to sci.electronics.design:
I would like to have a backup, what are you asking for the Protek?
:-)
The dog with the most impressive pair of jaws I recently met is an Akita. A water line had busted, the neighbors weren't home, and I had to turn off their water main or their foundation would have gone to pots. That meant passing the "Akita checkpoint". Luckily he was friendly and I knew his name.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
An Akita once bit a friend in the hand, and ripped the flesh from between her thumb and index finger.
With regards to the multimeter, it's settled. After reading everyone else's responses, I realized why my Fluke lasted so long. It's worth it.
And I realized that I should not be worried too much by $200, since I spend that much on stupid stuff each month, and my Fluke last 17 years with only a few scuff marks on the case, so...
I'm getting two DMM's: a Fluke 77 and one of the one's recommended here, only this time I will refrain from using the Fluke in the garage.
Thanks to all.
-Le Chaud Lapin-
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