[time-nuts] multimeter

William H. Fite omniryx at gmail.com
Sun Mar 24 14:10:47 UTC 2019


Fluke is the yellow one. Agilent is the orange one. Both are excellent. You
made a fine choice.



On Sunday, March 24, 2019, Jim Palfreyman <jim77742 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Thanks so much everyone for your comments. I especially liked "get the
> orange one". Because that's what I did get (I think it's orange - could be
> yellow).
>
> I was deliberately vague (apologies) but I just wanted a broad response.
> Which I got.
>
> I've settled on the Fluke 87V. It's on it's way.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 at 12:00, Bob Albert via time-nuts <
> time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
>
> >  I have a cheap Chinese clamp-on power line ammeter I use occasionally.
> > Its lowest range is 20 A I think but I built a 10:1 expander (very
> > simple).  I also built a line separator so I can grip just one line.
> > Bob
> >     On Saturday, March 23, 2019, 5:00:23 PM PDT, Jim Harman <
> > j99harman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  jim77742 at gmail.com said:
> > > I think I'm in the market for a new digital multimeter.
> > > Could I have some recommendations?
> >
> > >
> > > It all depends on whether you are checking for a bad power supply or
> > testing the linearity of a 24 bit DAC.
> >
> > For the former, I find a built-in clamp type AC/DC ammeter with a
> > reasonably sensitive range (40 A or less) is very handy. My current
> > favorite is the Mastech MS2108, from Amazon.
> >
> > -Jim Harman
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