Author Topic: Bench DMM Victor 8245 vs VICHY VC8145  (Read 3257 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline ColConTopic starter

  • Contributor
  • Posts: 21
  • Country: ca
Bench DMM Victor 8245 vs VICHY VC8145
« on: May 20, 2019, 04:47:50 am »
I would like to ask which of these you would prefer or recommend for a budget bench DMM. Thanks very much. I'd appreciate any insight.

Victor 8245
https://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Bench-Type-Multimeter-220mV-1000V-22nF-220mF/dp/B078SLSHP5


VICHY VC8145
https://www.amazon.com/d/Multi-Testers/VC8145-Digital-Multimeter-000counts-Voltmeter/B00S7KIKRK


 

Online nctnico

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 28429
  • Country: nl
    • NCT Developments
Re: Bench DMM Victor 8245 vs VICHY VC8145
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2019, 08:54:59 am »
These seem pretty much equal from a functional point of view. I'd buy the cheapest one. I have a couple of VC8145s myself and they still work great after  several years.
There are small lies, big lies and then there is what is on the screen of your oscilloscope.
 

Offline ColConTopic starter

  • Contributor
  • Posts: 21
  • Country: ca
Re: Bench DMM Victor 8245 vs VICHY VC8145
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2019, 12:36:51 pm »
Thanks. I see quite a bit of info on the VC8145 on the web, but almost nothing on the Victor 8245. Not even photos, other than the one full-frontal on Amazon.
 

Offline beltet

  • Newbie
  • Posts: 5
  • Country: se
Re: Bench DMM Victor 8245 vs VICHY VC8145
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2019, 07:41:53 pm »
I was looking for a budget bench MM recently and landed on the VC8145 because of the good value on it. I had a budget for around 150$ and all others had similar specs with higher price and it was not that far from a real brand meter. So what I really did was choose between the VC8145 and a known brand meter. And for my purposes I don't need a known brand.
 
The following users thanked this post: ColCon

Offline graybeard

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 443
  • Country: us
  • Consulting III-V RF/mixed signal/device engineer
    • Chris Grossman
 
The following users thanked this post: ColCon

Offline LinuxHata

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 412
  • Country: us
Re: Bench DMM Victor 8245 vs VICHY VC8145
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2022, 05:09:48 am »
I'm also considering buying VC8245, due to it's "nostalgic" VFD display, but found absolutely no mentioning from real users online, dunno why...
 

Offline simba15

  • Regular Contributor
  • *
  • Posts: 123
  • Country: ca
Re: Bench DMM Victor 8245 vs VICHY VC8145
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2022, 02:30:25 pm »
VC8215 is good.

But the Victor is a clear duplicate of the HP 34410a design.

Here is a video of 8426A


Seems quite good but the price is much more than the 8125.
 


Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf