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What was your first multimeter or voltmeter?
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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Tepe on August 01, 2017, 01:43:33 pm ---Mine was this TMK 200 bought in November '79:

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Still got mine, but it has been dropped so that the movement has more than a little hysteresis.
Tepe:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on August 01, 2017, 01:58:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Tepe on August 01, 2017, 01:43:33 pm ---Mine was this TMK 200 bought in November '79:

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Still got mine, but it has been dropped so that the movement has more than a little hysteresis.

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I also have mine. The photo was taken today :)
The box still contains the instructions, the spare fuse, and the not so wonderful probes.
johnjanovyak:
Yep, I bought the same model Lafayette 99-5004 meter when I was 15 I think. (I'm 65 now) I still use it occasionally- sometimes an analog needle is better than digital numbers. I guess I got my use out of it- paid $16.88 for it, 'tho it's had an easy life since I used it only at home for projects and such. I really like it when things last a LONG time. I'm such a Slovak, I guess.
Red Squirrel:
I don't recall exactly because I accidentally blew it up, but it was one I got at Radio Shack.  It was a decent one, like I probably paid close to $100 for it at the time, so not super high end but not super cheap either.   Basically I used solder to replace a fuse because this is before I knew about sites like Digikey so had no idea where to get a proper replacement.  Then I accidentally used it in current mode to see if an outlet worked.  It worked.
ferdieCX:
I got this Sanwa U-50D in 1971 at age 13, after 3 years of yearn for a meter. It was a present from my aunt Lucia.
It still have both of them.
The meter still works, and aunt Lucia celebrated her 102 birthday some days ago
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