[Elecraft] DMM Recommendations -- Fluke 179?

[Chip Stratton]

True RMS for a $20 on Amazon multimeter.

Review here: https://youtu.be/xdGQEVdxmQQ

Chip
AE5KA

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:23 PM, hawley, charles j jr <c-hawley at illinois.edu
> wrote:

> True RMS for $19.95?
>
> Chuck Hawley
>  c-hawley at illinois.edu
>
>  Amateur Radio, KE9UW
>  aka Jack, BMW Motorcycles
> ________________________________________
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> on behalf of Dave Heil [k8mn at frontiernet.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 10:30 AM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DMM Recommendations -- Fluke 179?
>
> 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
>
>
> On 19-Mar-18 15:09, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> > My inexpensive DMM is becoming troublesome – internal rotary switch
> contacts intermittent, requiring wriggling back and forth before it will
> give a reading on some ranges.  And it has limited functions
> >
> > Some research suggested the Fluke 179.  I would like to have
> autoranging, all the usual DMM functions, plus capacitance, diode testing,
> frequency, and temperature.  Amazon sells it with an accessory kit (the
> Fluke 179/EDA2) for just under $300.  That’s about four times what the less
> expensive brands go for.  But on the theory that it’s better to buy the
> best first and cry only once, is the Fluke 179 worth the price?
> >
> > Ted, KN1CBR
> >
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