Isn't there trade restrictions still with Iran?
As the government subsidizes shipping in China a they are able to do free shipping on small parcels if they wish to a lot of western countries (US, Australia, Europe etc). It's a reciprocal agreement and our countries postal service bear a large slice of the cost.
Not sure about Iran though. But if it was easy to buy from China you would surely know about it by now you're practically neighbors.
I don't know, but it's very hard or expensive to buy something from foreign online shops for personal use as an average individual.
For some countries maybe. I'm sure you can get a UNI-T shipped off aliexpress?
(Yes, you will not likely find a UNI-T locally, and if you do not for a good price. Even here in North America we get them from where they are made.)
We don't have an official access to financial companies like PayPal, MasterCard, etc so payments are a big turn down. However, it
is possible to do online payments using MasterCard or other cards traded by private companies (gift cards I guess) but like other things I've said, they are absurdly priced and with no official support thus making me finally give up on shopping online from foreign websites. There are also many problems in shippings to a third world country in which I am...
what about www.tme.eu ?
I guess I'd be better off not to shop online when there are the problems I said above.
Most of my Arduino stuff measurements here are done with a 2,74 bucks 830 dmm from aliexpress. It's a better one with the continuity buzzer and does the job most of the time. Not for work on mains, though.
I like the autorange of my ut 61e, when I check an unknown resistor as an example.
That's a promising thing to hear!
I see you're located in Germany, why don't you use those brilliant gems from Gossen Metrawatt?
So you mean it's a pain in the ass for professionals?
Don't be discouraged, autoranging is awesome feature, just some realizations of it (especially in low-end meters) leave much to be desired;)
Yes, I understand. Thank you.
Autorange becomes the ultimate PITA when I need to get into MIN-MAX or PEAK MIN-MAX modes,
which of course only works if you're in the correct range to begin with to catch those sudden changes, otherwise the display reads "OL"
or "LOL" if it's a really 'smart' meter
LOL
[...] However, as P90 mentioned and shown in several other threads around eevblog regarding other products, DER EE seems to be a very reputable company that manufactures good quality products.
Thanks a lot for your reply. You explained it very well.
banggood ships to iran.
how you get the money to them is another issue!
https://www.banggood.com/UNI-T-UT61E-Auto-Range-Modern-Digital-Multimeters-AC-DC-Meter-p-90124.html
Thanks for the suggestion, but you guessed it right.
OK, guys. I think there would be no benefit in waiting at this point. I'm going to buy something as a starter, maybe I move on to better DMMs later whenever I find something on the market.
I
have to somehow make a choice from this list, I don't know about the reputation of the SANWA one among users, but I like to know your thoughts on which one you would prefer.
There are more items that I can buy, including Kyoritsu and Lutron and some models of the UNI-T and LINI-T, but I guess they are not good enough. Also, this list has been made mostly by looking up in the local online shops while I have had found some of the items in the local shops too.SANWA CD771
GPS-176
VICTOR 88C
VICTOR 86D
HIOKI DT4212 (although this one is beyond my budget...)
HIOKI DT4211
Fluke 15B
Thanks in advance