Test Equiptment Product of the Month

Nov 24, 2005 1 Replies

This month's POM is the Protek 608 DMM found at:

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It has many features but these are my favorites: Large display including 50K main, 10K secondary and binary bargraph. Great for old folks like JT. Low voltage (0.25V) ohms for measuring in circuit resistors. 2.5V range for more precision Zener test to 20V Finally you can measure zeners and LEDS at 1.0mA. Great for MOSFETs, Turn them on with the internal 20V and measure Ron, turn them off and measure parasitic diode Vf. IR RS232C hookup and CD software package allows isolated, full control and data gathering. Used mine for a strip chart recorder, piece of cake. The True RMS AC bandwidth is limited at 20KHz and some other functions are not top notch but at


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