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Offline bd139

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2018, 04:44:17 pm »
Indeed. Not seen them for less than about £12.

You can actually slice the entire top half of the cheap DT830 DMMs off, hard wire the range and use it as a panel meter if you want. See: http://www.hanssummers.com/radiopsu.html
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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2018, 04:55:54 pm »
I have to wonder why go through the trouble though when you can buy panel meters from China for about the same price.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #27 on: March 27, 2018, 04:59:28 pm »
If you want to wait a month.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #28 on: March 27, 2018, 05:02:13 pm »
There are local resellers that have them for a bit more, I've rarely had to wait a month, maybe a couple weeks at most typically but I tend to plan ahead so it's not a big deal.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2018, 05:08:13 pm »
If you want to wait a month.
The trick is ordering it a month ago.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2018, 05:31:25 pm »
If you want to wait a month.
The trick is ordering it a month ago.

That's ok if you remember :)
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #31 on: March 27, 2018, 07:27:39 pm »
Reminds me of this...

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2018, 09:51:52 pm »
Those meters keep well in the packaging,

no 'use by date' to worry about,

easy to dust off,

look very 'pro' to the uninitiated (suckers)

and the price goes up every year whether it gets sold or not

i.e. it costs the shop $2 to buy and in a few years it will sell for $29.99,
if it sells earlier at $15.99 and a restock costs $4 you are still cruising  :clap:
try and do that with bank interest and lousy shares BS  |O


I'm in the wrong business   ::)
What do you think floor space costs each year? A product that sells that infrequently means losing money.

It's not a product you would rely on to pay the rent, it's just an accessory like you would have at a petrol/gas station for example

an extra bonus if one gets sold every 10 years lol

I've seen stuff like this on show for years with 3mm of dust, in places that are still trading strong.
Think store eye candy that may or may not sell,
and a stocktake item the accountant can play the numbers with yearly too

 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2018, 09:56:35 pm »
It's not a product you would rely on to pay the rent, it's just an accessory like you would have at a petrol/gas station for example

an extra bonus if one gets sold every 10 years lol

I've seen stuff like this on show for years with 3mm of dust, in places that are still trading strong.
Think store eye candy that may or may not sell,
and a stocktake item the accountant can play the numbers with yearly too
That sounds like sloppy business owners more than anything else. The yield for every square foot is pretty much sacred. It's okay to lose money on items sometimes, but they need to bring business in the door. Having stale stock is so bad that properly businesses rather sell it at a loss than have it on the shelves indefinitely.
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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #34 on: March 28, 2018, 09:56:56 pm »
In a perfect world or main street hub with continuous walk-thru it is sloppy biz practice,
but in many places some business models won't work, I've seen too many new stock bling shops go under within 6 months 
and the mixed bag ones go on for decades

For some owners there is the 'variety' factor too, even if there is some apparently stale stock, they like to 'fill it up' and move it about,
whatever it takes to get the people in for a looksee, address their queries, and hopefully drum up a mutual transaction     

A lot of places here mash it up with the old and new, and SALE time usually equalizes the situation, to either cull off old stock and or new dud stock
 

I personally don't shop where the stock is just all new, be it electronics, tools, cars etc

Most new stuff is shiny, boring breakable designed crap, churned out of modern sweatshops

I'd rather score a 10 year old unloved working Fluke and take my chances, than cross fingers on a new overpriced chFluke


A wrecking or scrap yard would giggle at this, they embrace all stock, new, old, vintage, stone age...  :clap:


 

 
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #35 on: March 30, 2018, 10:57:04 am »
The stupidity commits please not the seller, but the buyer!
And only the buyer decides for himself whether it's stupid for him or not.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #36 on: March 30, 2018, 11:17:42 am »
Come to think of it - are these meters even legal to sell in EU? No CE marking (no chance in hell for it to pass any relevant tests), no CAT marking, etc? EDIT - the OP's meter has both CE and CAT marked on it, but most of these don't.

I have seen similar meters (not the DT830s) at the local Leroy Merlin, but I think those at least had CE on them (whether it means much is a different thing).

What I find shocking is that the hardware stores typically sell these things right next to wires, switches, fuse boxes, etc - i.e. mains installation stuff, not in the "domotics" (doorbells, door cameras, home automation - i.e. mostly low voltage) section.  And people may think it is meant to be used (or safe) for that.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #37 on: March 30, 2018, 12:02:52 pm »
The ones from CPC are. They are CE marked and have HRC fuses in them.

I think they are made to different grades depending on the buyer.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #38 on: March 30, 2018, 01:35:34 pm »
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Come to think of it - are these meters even legal to sell in EU?

These thoughts are out of focus. If they are illegal to sell, makes the seller punishable. That's a completely different topic.

You can not assume flat-rate something like that. Especially not, just because the price seems subjectively exaggerated.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #39 on: March 30, 2018, 05:58:54 pm »
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Come to think of it - are these meters even legal to sell in EU?

These thoughts are out of focus. If they are illegal to sell, makes the seller punishable. That's a completely different topic.

You can not assume flat-rate something like that. Especially not, just because the price seems subjectively exaggerated.

I am not assuming it because of the price but because those meters are universally crap and many are dangerous. I believe in Germany they had to pull many of these from the shelves recently after they have been actually tested.
 

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Re: WTF Overpriced shitty DMM
« Reply #40 on: March 30, 2018, 06:01:53 pm »
The ones from CPC are. They are CE marked and have HRC fuses in them.

I think they are made to different grades depending on the buyer.

Could well be, I know that e.g. Uni-T meters are made and sold like that (buy from eBay/China, get an unsafe meter with wildly inflated BS ratings. Buy it from a German reseller and the ratings are much more sensible and it actually does have input protection installed ... Same model!)  But I haven't seen a DT830 variant that wasn't a deathtrap yet.
 


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