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What was your first multimeter or voltmeter?
saturation:
My first, and still have it. I think many true nerds who have a 'first meter' often still have it and don't have the nerve to throw it away :'(
BravoV:
--- Quote from: saturation on October 04, 2011, 10:15:33 am ---My first, and still have it. I think many true nerds who have a 'first meter' often still have it and don't have the nerve to throw it away :'(
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As far as I know personally, most electronic nerds (me included) never throw away stuffs, thats why my wife called us a bunch of hoarders. ;D
C'mon, ever watched (in memoriam) Jim William's personal workshop at his house, forgot which video, I think he was fixing some old Tek scope and when he needed a cap to replace the broken one at the tek scope, he was sort of searching it among those mountain gazillion of components laying on top of his table. I'm pretty sure we all have this kind of space for those left over abadoned components either at the corner at our table or drawer. ;)
ciccio:
My first multimeter, back at school in the late 60', was an ICE 680R, still in production in Italy after more than 60 years.. http://www.icestrumentazione.it/ProdMultAnalog.html.
I was in use everywhere, from factories to small repairman's shops, and in effect it was more complicated than the standard multimeter, because it did not have a knob...
In the army I used an AVO model 7, than at work again ICE 680R and AVO models 7 and 8.
We had a digital multimeter from France (don't remember the maker or the model, because nobody wanted to use it because it was so slooooow).
The first usable digital we got (about 1979) was a wonderful BECKMAN 3020: it used a custom converter, and was faster than the Flukes that we compared, that used Intersil chips.
The first one I bought for myself was a Chinese analog "El Cheapo" that lasted 2 days before exploding, and was replaced by a digital 3 1/2 from Japan. The latter was sold after many years of faithful service, for being replaced with a 4 1/2 digits TRM BECKMAN and maybe 10 other, mostly resold.
I'm still in love with the 3020 I used at work. The 4 1/2 digits had lower speed and higher battery drain.
armandas:
Got it in the first year at uni. Hardly new anything about multimeters and could not understand how people can sell them so cheaply :))
Achilles:
Hmm, my first DMM contact has been in school by some old Metrix Analogue and DMM...... kinda liked the analogue ones with bakelite cases and so. A bit of old-school ;)
My first multimeter then I bought was an Voltcraft. They just label, but they are very common around here and I think not thaaaaat bad for some general work when you don't work on high energy.... It's a True RMS with a little square wave generator (Very basic with just a few Hertz-Presets), Logic levels (TTL3V and 5V). Frequency counter and some buttons. The internal Temperature reading has always been shitty (about 5-6Deg Celsius above) but the rest still does work fine. So I still use and abuse it ;). It's been in use for about 12 years and was about 140Euro's.... so that has been OK all over the years....
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