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| tkuhmone:
My first multimeter was from Hung Chang. Cannot remember exactly the model, might have been "HC3500T" :) |
| TiN:
My first, soviet meter Second, noname 890G Third, F87V (still have it) Forth,fifth,sixth,seventh... K2001s. :o (still have them all, about to sell this year) Eigth (and nine), K2002 (still have these) Ten (and eleven) 3458A (keepers) |
| CatalinaWOW:
My first meter was an analog, house brand from Allied Radio. It failed a concrete floor drop test by breaking the meter pivots, and was replaced by another analog meter, similar to one of the Radio Shack models shown above. It was a long time before I saw the need for the transistor test function in the new DMMs, but did envy the capacitor test function. The hobby budget was small at the time and so the first DMM was picked up as a pile of parts at an electronics swap meet. There were pieces of three Beckman Instruments Circuitmate DM27 XL deemed beyond economic repair that I picked up for about $5 as I remember. The photograph is the working result. The counter feature is an occasionally useful bonus. No back was in the parts pile so this meter has had a back off and on through the years as I build something sort of workable that then falls by the wayside. You can see the remnants of tape around the meter used to hold some of the back candidates on. It has since been replaced by newer and better meters (I may have more but definitely not better than TiN), but still worked until the nine volt battery connector negative lead fatigued open. Just haven't gotten around to fixing. |
| HighVoltage:
This was my first digital meter Supertester 680 D, Made in Germany by ICD And it still works A long time ago, I installed new Hirschman 2 mm plugs and replaced the cables a few times but the tips are are still original. |
| hendorog:
--- Quote from: tkuhmone on February 02, 2017, 11:51:07 am ---My first multimeter was from Hung Chang. Cannot remember exactly the model, might have been "HC3500T" :) --- End quote --- Same here - HC-3030S. I haven't seen this for years and just found it. The batteries still have some charge and haven't leaked too badly. It still works on the original batteries - although the ohm adjust pot was seized and needed to be freed up. |
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