[Elecraft] DMM Recommendations -- Fluke 179?

[Johan Ymerson]

There are certainly some decent cheap DMM's out there, but also some terrible. 
I had one (CH-something) that was quite accurate when the batteries was new, 
but when the battery voltage got lower, it showed >25% too much. It apparently 
used the battery voltage as voltage reference...
Combined with no low-battery indication it was quite useless.
 
So if you need to trust the readings from the DMM, get one that has good 
reputation (doesn't need to be Fluke).

73 de Johan SM0XHJ

On Monday, 19 March 2018 17:06:48 CET David Fleming via Elecraft wrote:
> +1 for the inexpensive offerings from Harbor Freight. I have several of
> these cheap knock offs. They’re certainly not professional grade
> instruments, but they are more than adequate for hobbiest level work. I use
> a small CEN-TECH model for quick voltage, resistance and current
> measurents.  It works well and was actually FREE with a coupon. The
> readings are very close to my trusty, much more expensive, Fluke 79.  
> David, W4SMT
> 
> On Monday, March 19, 2018, 11:33 AM, Dave Heil <k8mn at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> 
> In the past, I had Fluke and Beckman meters and, in my days in
> industrial electronic sales, I sold both of them.
> 
> In recent years, I've become a fan of the Chinese-made copies at Harbor
> Freight.  They have the functions but not the price.  At $19.99, I was
> able to buy a couple of them--one for the shack and one for the barn. 
> You might give them a look before throwing money at the market leaders.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Dave K8MN
> 
> 
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