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ANENG goes crazy with new meters
Fungus:
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--- Quote from: GrayCat on March 13, 2021, 11:11:32 am ---Anyone here to discover "ANENG 620A"? At last, "Full-screen" multimeter, with control buttons on sides.
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How ranges are switched? I don't see any controls...
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They're on the side - in the same place as the volume controls on your smartphone. :)
The on/off switch is on the top, too.
midix:
Excuse me for bringing this up. It's getting a bit confusing to understand which Aneng models are just new&shiny and which ones are actually improved.
Currently, I have a 7$ worth multimeter and I feel it's often slowing me down because it has a manual range switch, no auto off, and no separate inputs for current measurements (oops, accidental shorting of a project is not good).
So, which of all these Anengs is the most appropriate for the following requirements:
- no intention to work with mains; under-12V projects only; occasional hobby-level use
- has auto range with manual range option (many cheaper meters have only one or the other)
- separate input for current
- good continuity check (I've seen from reviews that some Anengs can be worse than others)
- precision - enough with what you usually need for Arduino-type projects
- does not eat batteries too fast
- no all-screen - those just look too fragile to me and are very likely to eat batteries fast
- not exactly a pocket unit but also not unnecessarily huge - every square cm counts on my desk
From the very first search hits, I found AN870 which seems to be very popular still. But Aneng store has made a sneaky move. The price of AN870 is 30 EUR with a nice assortment of all kinds of probes... but the cheapest tracked shipment costs 18 EUR! So, it's 48 EUR (VAT included). And for that price, I can get UNI-T UT139C from a local online store (but with basic probes only).
AN8009 also has higher shipment, so it's 21 + 12 = 33 EUR total. Other Aneng models offer tracked shipment under 10 EUR. Q1 and AN9002 seem to be the bestsellers there. However, if you do more search outside of "Aneng official store", there are actually cheaper options from "Aneng favourable store" and "ANENG01 Store". Go figure, who's the real Aneng there :D
Is AN870 still worth it or "nothing special" and I can pick Q1, AN8009, AN9002 instead? Or any other model that's even better? I don't care much about Bluetooth on AN9002.
Fungus:
--- Quote from: midix on October 05, 2022, 02:21:58 pm ---So, what's the catch here? Is AN870 still worth it.
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Yes, but ...
I've got an AN860B+ and an AN870 and I find there's no real difference in practice. The AN870 has another digit on screen, yes, but that's overrated when all your components are 5% tolerance.
I found the screen plastic constantly falls out of my 870 after it took a knock one day. Other people here have said the same thing.
If I had to choose one of them on a budget? I'd get the AN860B+. It's significantly cheaper.
The Aneng 860B+ is hard to find these days but it's just a rebrand of the Zoyi VC17B+ so you might as well get the "original".
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000215450256.html
https://lygte-info.dk/review/DMMAnengAN860B%20UK.html
If you want more counts then maybe the ZT303 is the one to get:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000224226842.html
I think they're hard plastic though, not the nice rubber bumpers of the AN860/AN870/VC17B+
nb. I wouldn't buy any of the fashionable "inverse display" meters, they have the backlight constantly on and are battery hogs.
rsjsouza:
One thing that is called "the curse of EEVBlog" is that it turned the brand name "Aneng" a very popular one in the electronics community - they are simply capitalizing on this fame.
As Fungus mentioned, if you look behind the brand itself you can find the other brands that sell the same meter - for example, a few years ago I was trying to get a deal on an AN870 and ended up getting it cheaper as a Richmeters RM219 (the OEM for both brands is the Zotek ZT-219) - a similar thing happened with the Bside ZT-Y (instead of the Aneng SZ18).
If you are ok with 6000 counts, I would also take a hard look at the Richmeters RM113D. It is a mechanically well built little meter that checks all the boxes you are looking for, perhaps except for the mA together with V/Ω (but at least uses regular fuses and not tiny ones of the AN8008/8009). I use it extensively as the small meter that fits everywhere.
Good luck!
ElectricPower:
I have some Aneng meters. Good enough for home use with low voltages. Nobody buy an cheap Aneng meter for probing high voltages. If you'r not stupid then...
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