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Offline 4CX35000

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #850 on: February 22, 2018, 08:10:47 pm »
Micronta 18-Range Multitester was given to me by a widow whose late husband was a gas fitter. I think he many used it to test batteries and continuity. Sill boxed with the Radio Shack battery.

Also a Beckman Industrial 310 with the leather case which I used at work and they allowed me to keep it when I decided to leave for to join another company. It was a goodbye gift.
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #851 on: February 24, 2018, 06:05:34 pm »
Novotest TS-140 - Milano Ice Microtest 80 - Milano Ice Supertester 680R


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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #852 on: February 24, 2018, 08:49:11 pm »
Ice Supertester 680R, if you don't have one of these then get one, Brilliant analogue meter, which is still in production.

With all the leads and connectors.

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With the Cassinelli milano Novotest TS-140 for comparison, these are made by different companies, Cassinelli is no more i believe.

Hey could you write a review of this one?
 
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #853 on: February 24, 2018, 10:48:07 pm »
First meter I have ever used - I recently inherited it from my dad. Quite featured for its time and the very large movement was enjoyable to use.

Where can I find it and accessories for sale? A few years ago I had a few websites that advertised it but the links went dead.
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #854 on: February 25, 2018, 12:42:58 am »
Free gift with any purchase at HF about a year ago.

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #855 on: February 25, 2018, 12:47:29 am »
Yep, handy to have around for low-energy measurements. The built-in battery load tester is nice, too.
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #856 on: February 25, 2018, 01:24:29 pm »
Hey SullyRD, do you have a source for the banana plugs? They seem to be of a rather odd size. I scored a Chinaglia Cortina a while ago on a flea market, but no probes came with it and I haven't been able to find them in the right size. They seem to be of the same size as the Novotest/ICE. Are they 3mm?

Sadly also the power supply to make the square wave generator in it work also didn't come with the unit, but that should be easy to fix.

Thank you.
 

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #857 on: February 25, 2018, 03:45:52 pm »
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #858 on: February 25, 2018, 05:39:51 pm »
I've got one of those ICE 680R multimeters since mid '70s and it is still in perfect use despite the obsolete and odd 3V battery (2R10).

This is a very fine instrument.
 
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #859 on: February 26, 2018, 03:08:21 am »
FWIW, Probemaster offers 2mm connectors for meters such as this (8043S = 2mm meter ends).  :-+

They ship internationally as well (no, I'm not some sort of paid shill; just a customer).
 
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #860 on: February 26, 2018, 11:37:21 am »
If you need only the plugs, they have standard 2.0 mm plugs. I bought some from Distrelec, or you can search on Ebay.
Best regards

I have some 2mm banana plugs, but they're too small for the Chinaglia Cortina. 4mm is too large.  :-//
I guess they're not the same as the NovoTest/ICE after all then... Thanks anyway.

 

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #861 on: February 26, 2018, 04:49:30 pm »
Keithley 179A TRMS Multimeter  :)



 

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #862 on: February 26, 2018, 04:50:26 pm »
Keithley 168 Autorange DMM   :)

and about my Fluke Oldie 8600AU:  may be from the first day, the serial No = 0030
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #863 on: February 26, 2018, 05:09:05 pm »
Hey SullyRD, do you have a source for the banana plugs? They seem to be of a rather odd size. I scored a Chinaglia Cortina a while ago on a flea market, but no probes came with it and I haven't been able to find them in the right size. They seem to be of the same size as the Novotest/ICE. Are they 3mm?

Sadly also the power supply to make the square wave generator in it work also didn't come with the unit, but that should be easy to fix.

Thank you.
The leads on the Ice are 2mm x 15mm
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #864 on: February 26, 2018, 06:40:23 pm »
Thanks for the info on the leads of the ICE; I forgot about some probes I had purchased from Alibaba a while ago and the 2mm ends work really well with this meter.

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #865 on: April 13, 2018, 05:03:12 am »
Hi have a 7150 but the front panel says Weston. I used to work at Schlumberger in a division that used to be Fairchild and there was all kinds of old test equipment there because this was the test equipment division. Anyway I never thought much about this meter until it started acting flaky and I found the threads about replacing the input line filter and some other improvements.
 

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #866 on: April 14, 2018, 04:17:06 pm »
I've had too many to count I think.
So send some of them, after having robbed me I have little and i have nothing to count   :-DD  :-DD  :-DD
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #867 on: July 28, 2018, 03:53:26 pm »
Haven't posted in a while but was still lurking.

While designing a small PSU for a RIAA amp I discovered that sometimes even seven meters are not enough. So I remedied that:

First something I wanted ever since it was discussed here, the Fluke 8060. I love it. If it had autoranging it would be perfect.

Then this Philips PM2517E just turned up. It was very dead and required quite a lot of surgery to be brought back, luckily the special IC's needed were available from the Netherlands.

I had the chance to get these two BEWA meters quite cheaply. They were made in Germany in the early 80ies, really some of the first
affordable digital meters available in Germany. They're just bog standard ICL7106 meters. Both meters are basically the same apart from accuracy specs.
There's BEWA's full size, full colour advert from the back of an Elektor magazine from 1984.

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #868 on: July 28, 2018, 05:06:08 pm »
Trip back to oz a month or so ago, found my first meter (45+ year ago purchase). Those were the days :)

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #869 on: July 28, 2018, 05:06:38 pm »
A few years ago I used to think about downsizing my collection and was always tempted to get rid of both my Flukes 8060 and 8062. However, they are so straightforward to use, still accurate decades after the last cal and incredibly portable that nowadays I just think they will be buried with me. :D
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #870 on: July 28, 2018, 11:30:00 pm »
A few years ago I used to think about downsizing my collection and was always tempted to get rid of both my Flukes 8060 and 8062. However, they are so straightforward to use, still accurate decades after the last cal and incredibly portable that nowadays I just think they will be buried with me. :D
As Fluke 8060's are becoming slightly scarcer all the time, please keep the TEA community current on your state of health and place of burial by way of this forum!
 

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #871 on: July 28, 2018, 11:37:14 pm »
I saw one of the 8060's on Ebay tonight for £85!  ???
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #872 on: July 28, 2018, 11:42:05 pm »
My first at left image  and the last one reading a flat 9V battery
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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #873 on: July 29, 2018, 12:52:21 am »
On the left, is the first multimeter I ever owned, a Micronta VOM my folks gave me for my birthday.  On the right is the most recent multimeter I've acquired, a Simpson 360-2.

Oddly enough, they're both from the same time period (mid-70s).
 

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Re: Show your Multimeter!
« Reply #874 on: August 10, 2018, 04:41:49 am »
Hello!

I saw the picture of you multimeter. Is the same I have!
Unfortunatelly I lost its manual. Do you have a digital copy of the information of this model (Micronta 22-194)?

Thank you in advance for your help!

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