[time-nuts] multimeter

[Jim Palfreyman]

Hi All,

As you know I bought the yellow one.

My Fluke 87V has arrived and I've been playing with it for a few hours.

I love it.

Most importantly for this group it read 5.000 on my voltage reference.

But seriously what I love is its response, It's so much quicker than what I
used before. The fact it beeps when you have the leads in the wrong holes
is impressive. Most impressive.

Brilliantly designed (The "Rel" or "Tare" button is awesome) I so wish I'd
got this years back.

Thank you all for your advice.

You were spot on.



On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 12:00, Matthew D'Asaro <medasaro at mit.edu> wrote:

> I have long felt that the 289 is a classic example of design by committee.
> It has every possible feature that no one wants or needs and a price that
> represents that, but not the features people actually care about in a meter
> (fast turn on, rugged, light weight, reliable, long battery life.)
>
> Matthew
>
> Sent from Matthew D'Asaro's iPhone
>
> > On Mar 25, 2019, at 1:31 PM, William H. Fite <omniryx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You're so right about the 289. It costs too much, sucks the life out of
> > batteries and is wayyyyy too big.
> >
> > I have about a dozen handheld MMs, from a piece of Harbor Freight trash
> to
> > a Gossen Metrahit M248A (believe it or not, a gift from a widow, off her
> > late husband's bench. NIB). My 87 is the one I use the most. You know
> what
> > I use my 289 for? Tracking internal temp on the Christmas turkey and the
> > occasional hunk of roast beef.
> >
> > It may not be the most desirable multimeter but it's one hell of a meat
> > thermometer!
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Monday, March 25, 2019, Dan Kemppainen <dan at irtelemetrics.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The 87 is a good general purpose meter. My preference has been the now
> >> obsolete Fluke 189. It was replaced with the 289, which is just
> horrible.
> >> It eats batteries, is huge, takes forever to 'boot'. No one in the ship
> >> grabs that one unless it's the last one on the shelf.
> >>
> >> We've gone to orange meters now that we can't get more 189's. The
> Keysignt
> >> U1272A has been a good replacement in our shop for the 189.
> >>
> >> I also have a U1241B, and am quite happy with it. I find myself reaching
> >> for the U1241B more often than the Fluke 189 as of late. It's smaller...
> >>
> >> All that said, I'm certain you'll be happy 87 for what you plan on doing
> >> with it.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 3/24/2019 12:00 PM, time-nuts-request at lists.febo.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Message: 8
> >>> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:00:12 +1100
> >>> From: Jim Palfreyman<jim77742 at gmail.com>
> >>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> >>>        <time-nuts at lists.febo.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] multimeter
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> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>
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