FS: Fluke 8845a Multimeter - Page 1
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author: aronake
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2025, 10:45:04 am
content: Fluke 8845a MultimeterHave seen some wear but fully functional.Comes newly calibrated with calibration certificate against calibration standards certified by Hong Kong Standards and Calibration Laboratory (SCL).Display pretty good. What looks like missing lines is due to screen update. These works too.Price: 500 USD or reasonable offer + shipping.Located in Hong Kong. Due to shipping costs and potential tariffs, best if you or someone you know happen to come to Hong Kong and could then pick it up and bring in luggage home.

author: krish2487
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2025, 01:51:23 pm
content: PM sent

author: guenthert
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2025, 11:20:58 am
content: Quote from: aronake on September 13, 2025, 10:45:04 amYou intend to avoid tariffs by carrying it in luggage? Sounds exciting. Good luck! Let us know how that went.

author: Hydron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2025, 12:13:24 pm
content: Just got back from the States with a Keithley 238 and a RV722 KVD in my luggage, 88 bucks for an extra bag (or just travel light one way) is much cheaper than shipping! If I had a HK trip in my near future I'd have jumped on the K2001 myself (or given the price would have looked into shipping it if I hadn't just gotten a R6581T).

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2025, 01:05:33 pm
content: Quote from: Hydron on September 15, 2025, 12:13:24 pmCabin baggage, I presume.

author: Hydron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2025, 05:45:20 pm
content: Full width rack unit is not very compatible with cabin baggage, so no, went in the hold, Virgin is 65 GBP (charged in USD if you're stateside when paying) for an extra 23kg hold bag. Easier than the Keithley 228A that an ebay fuckup (they refused to allow the seller to ship it internationally after I won an auction with UK listed in the shipping list) forced me to take in luggage once!Only paid 250 USD for the KVD and 175 for the SMU (plus shipping), so not crazy value in the hold (though I'd be annoyed if they were lost!), hand luggage had far more valuable stuff that made the round-trip with me.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2025, 07:10:59 pm
content: How did you manage to get electronics in the hold without them throwing a hissy fit?

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2025, 07:12:01 pm
content: I imagine the luggage x-ray folks must have quite a lot of "WTF is that" moments.I think it's batteries they don't want in the hold.

author: Hydron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2025, 07:36:35 pm
content: Yeah I always pull any batteries (lithium or not) or items that are so dense that they might trigger a check and take them in hand luggage. Never had any issues taking all sorts of electronics in the hold, including soup can sized 6800uF 450V electrolytic caps, my coffee machine or even a small Tesla coil (caps were for that).As for hand luggage I've taken scopes, a bench multimeter (34401A) and even a 7kg metal motorised CCTV camera. Occasionally get asked what they are but never had any issues (treat stuff that's really dense like a laptop, or be ready to show what it is).

author: EC8010
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2025, 06:49:31 pm
content: I was stopped at Amsterdam airport with twelve small valves in my hand luggage. Lady asked me what they were and I said, "Well, you're not old enough to have used them, but do you remember visiting your grandparents and having to wait while the radio warmed up?" That made her day and she called her colleagues over to see the nice man who thought she was younger than she actually was. She let me through.At Berlin, I turned up with a (digital) oscilloscope in hand baggage. I carefully checked the notices, but they clearly stated laptops, not computer-based equipment. I was stopped by security fellow who remonstrated with me. I explained that I had read the notices carefully. He took oscilloscope away to be swabbed for explosives. He came back and told me things could have been more serious, miming putting long rubber gloves on for a rectal examination. He let me through.I took self-made lead pots in hand luggage through Heathrow. Knowing they might be contentious, I put them out individually on the conveyer to the X-ray scanner, rather than stacked inside one another. I had no problems. But my colleague behind me got into trouble with buckles on his shoes...@Hydron: That was a bargain on the KVD.

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2025, 07:49:12 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on September 15, 2025, 07:10:59 pmThere are lots of technicians and engineers that travel with ETall of the time. I've carried bags of hand tools and small component parts many many times and I've carried bigger things such as a core memory upgrade for an IBM 1130 and and a Tektronix 465 scope. I've only been stopped and questioned twice, once when I had some prototype blue LEDs with about 6 inch wires leads. Theunterminatedwires caught their attention. The other time was when I hand carried a rather bulky Apple II computer. They were concerned that it was big enough that I could hide a hand gun inside of it so I had to pay a visit to the head of the airport security. After lots of dancing around he finally told me what their concern was so I popped the lid off of the Apple II and they could see that there was nothing in it but one circuit board so they were happy. Due to my schedule I had gotten the airport about 7 hours early that day so I didn't mind wasting time so I let them take their time and play their silly games. I even hand carried a complete 48 inch RC airplane with both the transmitter and receiver through customs in Hawaii and later in Miami. The security people all knew what it was and they just gave it a brief look over and waved me through. (We were on a chartered flight and space was not a problem but we still had to go through customs and security.) LOL, on one flight I was going to a dry area but I had a large foldout military tool box so put a case of Coors beer in the tool box and checked it through and put all of the hand tools that I needed into canvas tool bag and I hand carried it.About 35 years ago I brought a metal suit casefullof nothing but HP-71s back from London to New York. Even those didn't raise an eyebrow.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2025, 08:29:18 pm
content: I carried a 465 out to Belfast and back. When I got back I found that - so far as corporate insurance was concerned - I'd been to a war zone, and hence was uninsured. Oops.But that was 40 years ago (gulp), and things have tightened up a little bit since then. For a start they didn't bother to look at my shoes....More recently I took a voltage reference to Hannover for calibration on a PTB voltmeter, plus a handheld DVM to demonstrate it working. I made sure it could be carried as hand baggage, and spread it out for the x-ray machine. No problems, but I don't know what would have happened if I had tried to put it in the hold.

author: Hydron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2025, 09:20:33 pm
content: Voltage reference (at least an always-on one) is the only thing that gives me pause due to the batteries involved. Did they care about that at all? My LTZ ref has a bunch of lipos in it which I worry they'd be concerned with.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2025, 10:00:15 pm
content: Quote from: Hydron on September 19, 2025, 09:20:33 pmThe Trancell II voltage reference isverywell agedConsequently it runs on SLA batteries.Everything was very relaxed when I went through security; presumably there wasn't a heightened security level at that time. It might have helped that I asked where they wanted me to put things, and that I separated them out in trays, and that I look like an elderly northern European.