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).
Oh man, And I wanted to take one for a walk! :)
Look into his eyes, and you'll see what he's saying. :)
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.
Rotties sometimes don't look at you while barking. When that happens and their neck hair is up, oh boy ...
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.
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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