The Best Multimeter Ever! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 10:23:50 am
content: I present, for your consideration, the best multimeter, ever.http://www.hioki.com/discon/pdf/multi/3207_08.pdfDave.

author: ElektroQuark
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 10:38:47 am
content: 3207 or 3208?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 10:41:09 am
content: Quote from: EdoNork on January 28, 2013, 10:38:47 amOh, the 3208, obviously.Dave.

author: ElektroQuark
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 11:05:39 am
content: I was playingHas anyone seen one? I think they must be rare items.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 11:23:03 am
content: I didn't new something like that even existed!Alexander.

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 12:29:48 pm
content: That thing is going to hurt µCurrent sales...... only .2V burden voltage on .02A

author: MetraCollector
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 12:41:46 pm
content: MUST HAVEhttp://www.hioki.com/discon/pdf/multi/3207_08.pdf

author: JuiceKing
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 12:42:39 pm
content: It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

author: nixxon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 01:00:50 pm
content: Is it a calculator? Is it a multimeter? Is it both? Is it neither?I initially thought Dave had learned to master Photoshop, but no... someone actually made this funny looking hybrid...

author: ecat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 01:06:18 pm
content: Quote from: nixxon on January 28, 2013, 01:00:50 pmIt's a CalcuMeter ! Or maybe a MultiLator. Oh yes, multilator, I like that

author: SLJ
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timestamp: January 28, 2013, 01:33:15 pm
content: I'm gonna have to keep an eye out one of those for my calculator collection...

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 01:46:18 pm
content: If you Google around for a bit you'll find there are plenty for sale.

author: mianchen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 01:56:12 pm
content: I haven't seen any for sale after googling around. A few places list that as "call for price", I doubt they have any in stock. Found 1 from Taobao.comhttp://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.10.2.0hWneK&id=10079352581listed as RMB 450, around US$70?

author: ModemHead
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 02:30:31 pm
content: I especially like the jack-of-clubs tilt stand for the 3207.

author: Soertier
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 02:34:36 pm
content: Quote from: mianchen on January 28, 2013, 01:56:12 pmNice, 1988

author: GnatGoSplat
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 07:13:20 pm
content: Ah, but no alarm clock!

author: david77
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2013, 08:15:08 pm
content: I think I've seen a review of this MultiLator in one of the old Elektor mags from the late eighties. Have to go dig that up...

author: MBY
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2013, 11:28:32 pm
content: As a calculator collector AND a DMM collector I absolutely must have one of those! I also have googled, but not found anything. This is something HP should do. As the world best calculator manufacturer and long time manufacturer of really good test gear, I _demand_ them to buy back Agilent and create a real "RPN-DMM".I would buy two of them at least, no questions asked, and perhaps check the specs later.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2013, 06:18:41 am
content: Quote from: MBY on January 29, 2013, 11:28:32 pmI'm sorry you must have been terribly outdated, everyone who designed the calculators are at Agilent not HP, HP is now full of losers who think computers are the way forward for HP (Which agilent thinks is not and damn, they are right)We need to go back to 1980 and tell HP to fire anybody who thought of computing and make RPN-DMMs!

author: ilikepez
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 02, 2013, 03:49:39 am
content: Man and I have been carrying around a ti-32 and my fluke 87-v for two years like a chump.

author: jeroen74
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 02, 2013, 08:20:45 am
content: There are bench multimeters that have a y=mx+b function (basically offset and gain) you can apply to the reading, but this is something entirely different

author: Wartex
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2013, 06:28:34 pm
content: http://www.torontosurplus.com/hioki-3208-calcu-hi-tester-dmm-multimeter-with-calculator-with-probes-manual-and-case.htmlyou are welcome

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 03, 2013, 10:13:17 pm
content: Some bench meters can do statistical functions, trig functions, transcendental functions and 8th degree polynomials. Some also allow you to upload programs that can do computations.HP designed a range of HP-IL instruments designed to work with the HP-41 programmable calculator.

author: MBY
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2013, 07:31:17 pm
content: Quote from: T4P on February 01, 2013, 06:18:41 amWhat do you mean? Agilent has never designed calculators. HP has, before the split into Agilent and HP is still the company that makes calculator (nowadays via exclusive rebranding from Kinpo Electronics). I'm fully aware of Agilent branching of HP and that the latest HP calculators are not designed nor manufactured in house, so I don't really understand in what way I'm outdated?

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2013, 01:15:58 am
content: Oh no, you don't get what i mean, :\The HP we know of in the yesteryears is dead, they've gone to Agilent.

author: MBY
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2013, 03:20:12 am
content: Quote from: T4P on February 07, 2013, 01:15:58 amYes. And the topic DMM/calc is outdated too. I really don't know what your point is.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 07, 2013, 10:34:57 am
content: Quote from: T4P on February 07, 2013, 01:15:58 amThe original HP calculator division still exists at HP (albeit much smaller and less funded than days gone by). None of the calculator people ever went to Agilent.AFAIK, Cyrille de Brébisson is still working there.Yes, Kinpo manufacture their calcs, but their high end ones are designed in-house by the HP calculator group.Did you know the HP calculator division was at one point based in Australia?Dave.

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 30, 2013, 07:58:27 pm
content: Took me a couple of months to find one but it should be here in about a week.I'll let you know how it works.

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 01, 2013, 02:41:32 am
content: Fantastic!Make sure you film a video to get Dave frustrated because he missed the chance to buy it

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 01, 2013, 05:35:35 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on February 07, 2013, 10:34:57 amI have an Aussie designed HP49G in front of me right now running HP50G firmware. I have another 4 or 5 spare ones. I used to have more, but I gave them away.There is a chance to pick them up super cheap as they had a huge problem with an electrolytic cap inside that leaked stopping the calculator start. Replace the capacitor, and you have a fully working HP49G! I got HP49G 8 calculators for something like $40. The early models had unuseable keyboards and unreadable displays until you removed the protective plastic cover, but luckily, I think most of the ones with the capacitor problem are later models.Definitely not the same build quality as the earlier injection molded key calculators, but it is still my most often used calculator.

author: Jon86
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timestamp: May 01, 2013, 07:06:40 am
content: What an awesome tool!Why does no one produce these? They seem pretty simple and I bet a lot of people would buy one

author: SLJ
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timestamp: May 06, 2013, 03:17:22 pm
content: Just arrived! Getting ready for the Kutztown Pennsylvania antique radio show later this week but I'll give a full report on the accuracy when I return next week.

author: M0BSW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2013, 07:26:31 pm
content: Is it a scam or are we having a second April fool day , you see you got me suspicious all the time now.

author: retiredcaps
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2013, 09:52:43 pm
content: Quote from: M0BSW on May 06, 2013, 07:26:31 pmThey are quite serious. Seehttp://www.eevblog.com/2013/01/30/eevblog-416-35-years-of-test-equipment/

author: SLJ
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timestamp: May 07, 2013, 12:38:37 am
content: It's real. Here it is next to one of my vintage Flukes.

author: TheEPROM9
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timestamp: May 07, 2013, 03:20:05 pm
content: I don't think there is any competing with that, does make you wonder why one of these is not on the market anymore.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2013, 05:28:21 pm
content: I want one but with inbuilt MP3 WiFi and internet connection as well as a phone, should be a cinch these days.

author: casinada
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2018, 10:42:02 pm
content: Get a Mooshimeter and link it to your phone

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 06, 2018, 01:28:47 am
content: I were going to do that, I'd be trying the 121GW.(Great necropost, by the way.)