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What was your first multimeter or voltmeter?
rrinker:
This was my first, the kit was $1 or $2 cheaper than the assembled one so I got the kit.
It might be buried in a box somewhere, I'll have to look. Love that top voltage range, 1000V - not on your life. Even then I knew better than to try and use that thing for even 120V. (I got this when I was about 9)
Conrad Hoffman:
I can't remember my first meter, probably a Heathkit VTVM, the horizontal one, but my first DVM was the Fluke 73 when it first came out. It's still on my bench, still accurate and still the most used tool I've got.
artag:
Mine was a tiny cheap Japanese 1k/volt, very commonly rebadged at the time. I was very proud of it (I was about 10) but killed it fairly quickly : I tried to measure spark plug voltage which it appeared to survive, but the next use on mains vaporised the pcb. I think I'd blown the rectifier.
The replacement was a secondhand AVO multiminor, probably already 20 years old when I got it. It was made of tougher stuff, and I still have it.
First digital was a fluke 75, bought faulty at a hamfest. Fixed it and still use it regularly - I love that form factor. Many clones have failed to beat it (I still prefer it to my series II fluke 79 - they made the mistake of putting Hz before DCV. Which do you use most ?)
wraper:
I had one like on the picture. IIRC it was made in 1964 or 1966.
mmagin:
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I think I had a very similar model. The crappy test leads were always breaking. I guess it wasn't terrible otherwise.
It was so much better when my Dad got a Fluke 77 a couple years later (which I had unlimited use of). That meter is still working just fine, some 33 years later or so.
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