DMM for life?

[tomb]

Originally Posted by NeilR

Tomb,

I included persistent because you deserved it! I included lucky because there are so many snipers that time of day doesn't make that much of a difference anymore. It does, however, remove a large pool of potential less sophisticated bidders with day jobs.

No question, my Wavetek meters are not very saleable, but I figure the 10A large fuses in them are worth as much as the meters themselves cost me. I bought spare fuses that came with a free meter

And they are hard to come by. Which is why I am surprised that they do not sell well when they come up. My hat is off to Fluke's marketing. I bought two within one week. Actually the 2nd one was by accident because I forgot to set up a snipe group. But for 15 bucks I won't complain. It is very handy having multiple meters monitoring different things when an amp gets brought up the first time.

I only posted what I did because I think there are a lot of starving students here that are lead to believe that only a Fluke is good enough to get their Cmoy up and running, and that simply is not the case. I myself would like to own a Fluke, but the only ones that make sense for me (given my existing meters) would be the 187/189 series and I just haven't had the need to justify all the bidding it will take to bring one in at a decent price. I would like to find out what all the mystique is about. I have used them on occasion but never owned one.

Yep - those are all great points ... didn't think about the CMoy crowd (I am still one!). Up until this Fluke, I used a tiny IBM-throwaway analog-Triplett, with borrowed leads.

[NeilR]

I actually mentioned Cmoy more or less sarcastically

There isn't anything on these DIY sites (M3/PPA/Gilmore) that requires a meter designed for 1000V readings with 0.01% accuracy in extreme environmental conditions where it might be run over by a truck. These things are designed to survive use on the Alaska Pipeline in mid-winter, I guess.

Our meters are actually very "overspec'd" physically and electrically for anything we build while it is sitting on our work benches in our environmentally controlled homes measuring the output from our 24V supplies, or even our power mains. (With the exception of matching, as I mentioned earlier)

Like I said, my hat's off to Fluke. I wish I had that marketing ability.