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Old 05-22-2006, 01:27 AM
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Default DMM for life?

I am in the quest in looking for a new DMM. I am still in school, going for a electrical engineer degree, so I guess a good meter will last me for a life. I probably wouldn't just use it for DIY audio, also on anything that will come up in the future jobs/project. Measurements should including mV, mA, ohmic values in single digit, may be good capacitance readings too. So I guess a good $100+ Fluke DMM would be nice.


How are the Fluke 189 and 179 compared? I know there is something called 4 wires resistance measurement, are these 2 DMM capacable of such?

I looked on eBay, and saw this Fluke 177 going for less than $150, and some Fluke 189 going for around 200. Do they look good for your guys? HMC is selling 179 for $240 and 189 for $412, do the eBay ones look like scam to you?


Thanks,
Peter
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