I took an arrow to the knee (from Dave Jones)

[IanB]

Saying "all Flukes are overpriced" generalizes a bit too much. My original observation about price related to the 87V. That meter is evidently a very old ("mature") design that has surely amortized its development costs many times over by now. Fluke clearly are pricing that meter in accordance with the quality and the brand and its position in the line-up, but they must have a very good margin on it.

One thing that bugs me is when Fluke fall prey to the marketing "keep adding more features" mantra. They replaced the beautiful, elegant 189 with the horrible, overweight, bloated, battery hungry 289. What were they thinking? I'd like a top end electronics oriented Fluke, but I'm blowed if I'm ever going to buy a 289. They really screwed the pooch on that one.

[Uncle Vernon]

but when you can throw a meter out of a moving car and it survives you have to admire it for that.

All the same, you really shouldn't be doing this on a routine basis. 

[PStevenson]

but when you can throw a meter out of a moving car and it survives you have to admire it for that.

All the same, you really shouldn't be doing this on a routine basis. 

of course not and I also recommend no one try the same test with an oscilloscope, they can rarely survive that kind of "testing"

[vk6zgo]

but when you can throw a meter out of a moving car and it survives you have to admire it for that.

All the same, you really shouldn't be doing this on a routine basis. 

I felt that would be a good thing to do with the UNI-T & "Meterman" DMMS I've used,but I'm assured newer UNI-Ts are much better!
I would still go back to check with the Meterman,& if it survived,run over it several times to make sure !

VK6ZGO

[aluck]

vk6zgo, it sounds like a DMM hate speech! 

[vk6zgo]

vk6zgo, it sounds like a DMM hate speech! 

OHHHH YEAH!!!

VK6ZGO