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Best handheld dmm, at any price?

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nctnico:

--- Quote from: bd139 on April 18, 2018, 08:56:13 am ---Just to back up how bad this can get, here are two meters measuring the same resistor. The GDM-8341 is spot on and does not change if the Keysight one is connected or not. Resistor is a 1k 1/4W 5% carbon film jobby

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:palm: Perhaps you need to think first on HOW a DMM measures resistance and after that about why putting two DMMs in parallel isn't going to work!

ogden:

--- Quote from: nctnico on May 19, 2018, 10:47:38 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 18, 2018, 08:56:13 am ---Just to back up how bad this can get, here are two meters measuring the same resistor. The GDM-8341 is spot on and does not change if the Keysight one is connected or not. Resistor is a 1k 1/4W 5% carbon film jobby

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:palm: Perhaps you need to think first on HOW a DMM measures resistance and after that about why putting two DMMs in parallel isn't going to work!

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Perhaps you need to check your vision  :-DD


--- Quote from: bd139 on April 18, 2018, 08:33:32 am ---Most of the DMMs use a current source of some description and then measure the voltage across the resistor.

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scopeman:

--- Quote from: 4thDoctorWhoFan on April 01, 2018, 12:59:21 am ---I really still like my Fluke 77 (original series, not II or III or IV).
When I just have to grab a meter and do some troubleshooting, I always seem to gravitate towards the 77.
Sure, it does not have all the bells & whistles but it's accurate and fast.  Plus, I just came across a NOS one on the auction site.

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I still have probably a half dozen of those meters. Still one of my favorite meters for everyday use. They run forever on a carbon zinc 9V. I think if I put a 9V ultimate Lithium in it it would probably last the rest of my life!

Sam
W3OHM

niner_007:

--- Quote from: VEGETA on April 11, 2018, 08:59:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 11, 2018, 08:53:23 pm ---You can't measure the cap value in circuit. You're then measuring the circuit's capacitance.

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yes, that is required too.

Anyway, I wanted to know how +400$ DMM cannot measure capacitance accurately while a lot less LCR meter can do it perfectly. They both have MCU and ADC to do the final job... so why?

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the analog frontend of a traditional multimeter is very different from that of a LCR meter, that's where most of the BOM and design is; the ADC and MCU is insignificant relative to that

niner_007:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on March 31, 2018, 10:18:40 am ---If price were not a consideration, which handheld DMM would you most like to have (for electronics work) , and why?

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Currently high on my list is the Keysight 1272 or generally the 1200 series, specs are okay, but the internal construction is important to me, and this one has a beautiful discrete construction; nothing is worse than a product that has good specs and works properly but is ugly on the inside, speaking for myself here, I understand not everyone feels the same :) I hate when handheld meters use an ASIC or one of those multimeter ICs, that's honestly quite enough for me to turn it down, if it can be avoided. Anyone feels the same?

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