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Why do I need more than 1 multimeter?
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vinlove:

--- Quote from: windsmurf on July 25, 2019, 08:31:56 pm ---I agree multiple meters are useful to measure voltage and current simultaneously. 

So why can't they build a meter that can do both at the same time?   

And why would anyone need more than 1 scope?  >:D

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Because using several MMs are good fun, and feel great. You can also compare readings of different MMs for the same component. :D

And not all MMs have all the capabilities in one. Some MM do not have capacitance, some dont have NCV, some dont have hFE ... some MMs have Capacitance reading limitation to 1000 nF ..... blah blah.

Having more than 1 scope gives more flexibility. I have 1 base scope, and 3x portable ones. I carry the portable ones to the shed, car and out in other locations in my pocket or bag.  Cannot do that with 1 desktop scope powered by mains.
Electro Detective:

All the above reasons, and MORE* coming     (*meter/s in your 'posession')
and do you really need another phone or the latest shiny adware magnet one? Meters are more fun, survive drops better and no Facebook BS

My two probes worth: different meters sport different features, Min Max and Low-Z and Auto Low-Z I find very useful in many iffy situations,
basic logging is nice too, to keep unattended tabs on a tedious or intermittent head banger,  |O

I find owning a 'few' meters (nose growing..  :o) with ALL the various functions scattered amongst them,
is a cheaper and better bet, than having one or two expensive 'all in ones', sometimes with too much smarts on board   ::)
and not really the 'jack of all trades' you think you have   


and here's an important FYI for the pocket > some cheaper decent meters excel at being sacrificial,
i.e. they just won't spark out or die like expensive ones tend to sometimes do

I think three multimeters plus a clamp meter is a good minimum to have, and cut off point (good luck with that..)
Upon getting there, the meters photographed with the owner in a mug shot holding up today's newspaper,
then emailed to EEVblog Admin as a requirement to join the forum  ;D


 
 


--- Quote from: Brumby on July 24, 2019, 03:30:45 am ---
--- Quote from: mindcrime on July 24, 2019, 02:04:47 am ---The correct number of multi-meters to own is always n+1, where n is the number you currently own...

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I would like to challenge that.  My current status is at n+2.

In addition to my current holding, I would like to add a bench meter with 4 wire measurement and something like the Uni-T 210E for a DC current clamp meter.  Why? ... Because I don't have them.   ;D

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I keep meaning to get one every few months when I remember or see posts here about it, for those iffy AC and DC mA measurements
(and because I don't have one, therefore I plead guilty Your Honour, and throw myself at the mercy of the EEVblog Court.. :scared:)   

and always the local oz sellers are either out of stock
or want $700 for one  :o  so when queeried about that, they reply it's currently out of stock but keeps the Ebay listing going =  :wtf:  +  :palm:

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I'm off to check out the other post too  > Re: Why do I need more than 1 oscilloscope?

joseph nicholas:
I just got a used Unit-e meter from a pawn shop for 7.50 usd.  The milliamp fuse was blown but other than that it works good. 

Miles ahead of the cheap Chinese 830 type meters.

rstofer:
When you take a small boat to sea, you take one compass or three but never two.
Berni:
Why would one need more than 1 scope? Well you need a 2nd scope to fix the 1st scope when it breaks of course. ;D

Yeah its a bit harder to justify, but i do have a good reason for having two scopes. One of them is a high performance 4GHz scope running windows. While the performance is certainly nice there are down sides such as the inputs being more sensitive to damage, slow waveform update rates, slow boot times, clunky to set up, big, noisy, power hungry... etc So next to it i also have a old Agilent MSO6000. It might not sound as impressive at 300MHz and 2GS/s, but its a fast booting quiet scope with very good waveform update rates and is quick to set up. And because of that most of the time i end up using the smaller scope for convenience.

With how good digital scopes are getting its harder to justify keeping around old analog scopes around, but one wouldn't throw out a perfectly working scope right?
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