Author Topic: The Best Multimeter Ever! (Read 17296 times)

EEVblog · « **on:** January 28, 2013, 10:23:50 am »

I present, for your consideration, the best multimeter, ever.

http://www.hioki.com/discon/pdf/multi/3207_08.pdf

Dave.

ElektroQuark · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2013, 10:38:47 am »

3207 or 3208?

EEVblog · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2013, 10:41:09 am »

Quote from: EdoNork on January 28, 2013, 10:38:47 am

3207 or 3208?

Oh, the 3208, obviously.

Dave.

ElektroQuark · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2013, 11:05:39 am »

I was playing

Has anyone seen one? I think they must be rare items.

firewalker · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2013, 11:23:03 am »

I didn't new something like that even existed!

Alexander.

robrenz · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2013, 12:29:48 pm »

That thing is going to hurt µCurrent sales...... only .2V burden voltage on .02A

MetraCollector · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2013, 12:41:46 pm »

MUST HAVE

http://www.hioki.com/discon/pdf/multi/3207_08.pdf

JuiceKing · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2013, 12:42:39 pm »

It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

nixxon · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2013, 01:00:50 pm »

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...

ecat · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2013, 01:06:18 pm »

Quote from: nixxon on January 28, 2013, 01:00:50 pm

Is it a calculator? Is it a multimeter?

It's a CalcuMeter ! Or maybe a MultiLator. Oh yes, multilator, I like that

SLJ · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2013, 01:33:15 pm »

I'm gonna have to keep an eye out one of those for my calculator collection...

nctnico · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2013, 01:46:18 pm »

If you Google around for a bit you'll find there are plenty for sale.

mianchen · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2013, 01:56:12 pm »

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.com http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.10.2.0hWneK&id=10079352581 listed as RMB 450, around US$70?

ModemHead · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2013, 02:30:31 pm »

I especially like the jack-of-clubs tilt stand for the 3207.

Soertier · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2013, 02:34:36 pm »

Quote from: mianchen on January 28, 2013, 01:56:12 pm

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.com http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.10.2.0hWneK&id=10079352581 listed as RMB 450, around US$70?

Nice, 1988

GnatGoSplat · « **Reply #15 on:** January 28, 2013, 07:13:20 pm »

Ah, but no alarm clock!

david77 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 28, 2013, 08:15:08 pm »

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...

MBY · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2013, 11:28:32 pm »

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.

T4P · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2013, 06:18:41 am »

Quote from: MBY on January 29, 2013, 11:28:32 pm

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.

I'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!

ilikepez · « **Reply #19 on:** February 02, 2013, 03:49:39 am »

Man and I have been carrying around a ti-32 and my fluke 87-v for two years like a chump.

jeroen74 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2013, 08:20:45 am »

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

Wartex · « **Reply #21 on:** February 03, 2013, 06:28:34 pm »

http://www.torontosurplus.com/hioki-3208-calcu-hi-tester-dmm-multimeter-with-calculator-with-probes-manual-and-case.html

you are welcome

alm · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2013, 10:13:17 pm »

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.

MBY · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2013, 07:31:17 pm »

Quote from: T4P on February 01, 2013, 06:18:41 am

Quote from: MBY on January 29, 2013, 11:28:32 pm
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.
I'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!

What 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?

T4P · « **Reply #24 on:** February 07, 2013, 01:15:58 am »

Oh no, you don't get what i mean, :\
The HP we know of in the yesteryears is dead, they've gone to Agilent.

MBY · « **Reply #25 on:** February 07, 2013, 03:20:12 am »

Quote from: T4P on February 07, 2013, 01:15:58 am

Oh no, you don't get what i mean, :\
The HP we know of in the yesteryears is dead, they've gone to Agilent.

Yes. And the topic DMM/calc is outdated too. I really don't know what your point is.

EEVblog · « **Reply #26 on:** February 07, 2013, 10:34:57 am »

Quote from: T4P on February 07, 2013, 01:15:58 am

Oh no, you don't get what i mean, :\
The HP we know of in the yesteryears is dead, they've gone to Agilent.

The 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.

SLJ · « **Reply #27 on:** April 30, 2013, 07:58:27 pm »

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.

ivan747 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 01, 2013, 02:41:32 am »

Fantastic!

Make sure you film a video to get Dave frustrated because he missed the chance to buy it

amspire · « **Reply #29 on:** May 01, 2013, 05:35:35 am »

Quote from: EEVblog on February 07, 2013, 10:34:57 am

Did you know the HP calculator division was at one point based in Australia?

I 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.

Jon86 · « **Reply #30 on:** May 01, 2013, 07:06:40 am »

What an awesome tool!
Why does no one produce these? They seem pretty simple and I bet a lot of people would buy one

SLJ · « **Reply #31 on:** May 06, 2013, 03:17:22 pm »

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.

M0BSW · « **Reply #32 on:** May 06, 2013, 07:26:31 pm »

Is it a scam or are we having a second April fool day , you see you got me suspicious all the time now.

retiredcaps · « **Reply #33 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:52:43 pm »

Quote from: M0BSW on May 06, 2013, 07:26:31 pm

Is it a scam or are we having a second April fool day , you see you got me suspicious all the time now.

They are quite serious. See

http://www.eevblog.com/2013/01/30/eevblog-416-35-years-of-test-equipment/

SLJ · « **Reply #34 on:** May 07, 2013, 12:38:37 am »

It's real. Here it is next to one of my vintage Flukes.

TheEPROM9 · « **Reply #35 on:** May 07, 2013, 03:20:05 pm »

I don't think there is any competing with that, does make you wonder why one of these is not on the market anymore.

G7PSK · « **Reply #36 on:** May 07, 2013, 05:28:21 pm »

I want one but with inbuilt MP3 WiFi and internet connection as well as a phone, should be a cinch these days.

casinada · « **Reply #37 on:** April 05, 2018, 10:42:02 pm »

Get a Mooshimeter and link it to your phone

Brumby · « **Reply #38 on:** April 06, 2018, 01:28:47 am »

I were going to do that, I'd be trying the 121GW.

(Great necropost, by the way.)


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