Thoughts on current production DMMs?

[Elton A Sanders]

Hard to beat Fluke. That being said one can buy a lot of Harbor Freight meters for the price of one Fluke. I have both and they each have there uses.
     Sandy
     WB5MMB

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, at 7:59 AM, Rob Seastrom wrote:
> 
> Hi gang,
> 
> My Fluke model 12 has gotten a bit flakey, ironic timing considering I 
> bought it at Frys in Santa Clara almost 30 years ago.
> 
> This was a piece of my tool bag equipment, routinely subjected to the 
> tender mercies of airlines.  Like my Mitutoyo 6” calipers, something I 
> took reasonable care of but didn’t feel bad about carrying clenched in 
> my teeth underneath a vehicle.
> 
> Durability more important than features.  In fact the only “unusual” 
> feature that I have on the nice to have list is decent resolution (more 
> than one digit) in the low millivolts range both dc and ac since 
> periodically it would be nice to measure across a shunt, either 
> precision or field improvised.
> 
> Any thoughts?  The cheap and cheerful Chinese brands on Amazon that 
> have mind share in the maker community are tempting but I have no idea 
> on the durability aspect.
> 
> -r
> 
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