Show your Multimeter! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Professor Fudge
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 06:04:08 pm
content: Here are a bunch of the multimeters I have had throughout my life.On the left is my first one I got as a kid from my dad. I did some projects with the boy scouts with it. Its a Hung Chang HC-213.Next is a GB Instruments GDT-11 I got as a teenager to put together an intercom kit and trouble shoot a doorbell with.The green one is a Greenlee DM-40 home depot special cheapo meter I use to check mains voltage at work. I also use the ohms and continuity on it.The big yellow one on the end is what I purchased recently for $40 on ebay. Its a BK test bench 389.I have been using it building a bunch of kits and just starting to really learn about electronics and I like it!Ok now show me what you got!!

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 06:11:45 pm
content: dare we ? you might get upset when you see those lovely flukes, I have the VC99 and the AM220

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 06:27:55 pm
content: Mine Uni-T UT71A, Sunwa DT-890G, Sanwa YX-360TRD (Analog), and other dead DMMs (similar to your GB Instruments GDT-11)

author: JohnS_AZ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 06:35:16 pm
content: *chuckle*Seriously, I have two Fluke 77's that are probably 20 years old, work great, are still in cal, and I see no need to replace them.(and yes, that's really one of my meters in the photo)

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 06:48:59 pm
content: Personally , after all this gear that I recently own or build , about multimeters accuracy verification,I do not throw my hat , if I do not test first the meter .I am less sentimental ..

author: Professor Fudge
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 07:11:18 pm
content: JohnS_AZ sweet nixie tubes!

author: migsantiago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 07:15:31 pm
content: I have an unbranded one.I would like to have a better one... a Fluke would be awesome.http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3148/dsc00508c.jpg

author: ddrl46
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 09:15:12 pm
content: Extech EX330

author: Professor Fudge
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2010, 11:31:49 pm
content: Hey Mike, whats that blue one in the middle on the bottom? Looks like a big blue clamp?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 04, 2010, 12:22:30 am
content: I've had too many to count I think.

author: TopherTheME
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2010, 03:20:49 am
content: My Agilent u1242BQuoteNo such thing as to many multimeters!

author: seanmatthew22
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 04, 2010, 05:48:53 am
content: This is my Mastercraft meterfrom Canadian Tire it is auto ranging. Though nothing special it was twenty dollars which i think is pretty value.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2010, 07:01:15 am
content: Quote from: Professor Fudge on September 03, 2010, 11:31:49 pmyou are definitely right! thats the clamp meter!

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2010, 09:17:46 am
content: Quote from: Professor Fudge on September 03, 2010, 11:31:49 pmYes - it has a built-in AC/DC current measuring clamp. Very handy for diagnosing car electrical problems.BTW the small blue Pantec Zip pen-style unit has to be about 20 yrs old now. As far as I know, nobody makes something this small today - the nearest I've found so far is the one above it in the pic.

author: jahonen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2010, 10:39:27 am
content: Finally gathered them to "family" portrait. Shown in age order, oldest in the left:Regards,Janne

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2010, 04:21:28 pm
content: And my pile of them ...The last picture its not an accuracy test,its more like, 6 meters of cables or more ,running around the multimeters

author: McPete
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2010, 12:28:54 am
content: Here are my two, the Fluke 117C and the B&K Precision 2709B, with a Minichamp and Wiha #0 Phillips for size comparison;

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2010, 04:15:24 pm
content: Quote from: McPete on September 06, 2010, 12:28:54 amYou have lost the toothpick .

author: nyo
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2010, 07:41:51 pm
content: Hoping to get a fluke soon...

author: allanw
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2010, 07:59:44 pm
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on September 04, 2010, 09:17:46 amHow about this?http://www.circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/8476

author: PetrosA
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2010, 12:18:38 am
content: Quote from: allanw on September 06, 2010, 07:59:44 pmOr this:http://westsidedelivers.com/item.asp?PID=7540or these:http://extech.com/instruments/product.asp?catid=31&prodid=117http://extech.com/instruments/product.asp?catid=31&prodid=118or this:http://www.justhandhelds.com/store/Hongda_DT3211_Pen_Style_%20multimeter.html?__utma=1.248939648.1283818441.1283818441.1283818441.1&__utmb=1.2.10.1283818441&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1283818441.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=pen%20multimeter&__utmv=-&__utmk=255167368

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2010, 11:56:33 pm
content: We have at my work, this 3246 -- HIOKI PENCIL HITESTER (Japan) , actually its on our tool box ( industrial electricians) .I like it allot , but I would never get one for my self, I dislike tiny things ..

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2010, 05:21:59 am
content: That's a Mastech MS8226T I got for college and my dad's old Fluke 8021B. They are the only meters I have that measure properly in the presence of strong harmonics. In the picture, they are being used to measure the impedance of a transformer out of an old UPS, which has an AC impedance of 814 ohms at 100Hz. (I'm using my PC as a DDS function generator, and my best friend Tiffany Yep, a digital communications engineer/model, says hi...)

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2010, 08:43:58 am
content: @NiHaoMike: you should learn more on photography, coz you have a very confusing subject matter in your picture. me eyes tend to linger more toward the wallpaper. i think i'm going to be able to work really"hard"all day and night long if that wallpaper is infront of me everytimeand i dont see she's pronouncing "hi". i heard "Cheese!?"....anyone?