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Good multimeter for Industrial use at work (Fluke alternatives)
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J-R:
The AM-140 has zero changes from Brymen BM857s other than the outer shell.  Every aspect is identical.  Similar to one of my favorites, the Amprobe AM-47/Meterman PM55/Brymen BM27s.

From a simple photo, these take little to no effort to determine they are the same product.
MerlijnD:
Hello people,

Alot of responses. Im currently gone for christmas and the rest of the year. I will evaluate and try to respond indepth in the beginning of 2023.
Thank you very much!!!
BillyO:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on December 25, 2022, 05:21:56 pm ---I don't see any mention of mistakes by the tech--what are you referring to?

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The MSHA document you posted says he was making a phase to phase measurement and goes on to specifically stress best practices should be phase to ground.

In any case, your point is taken.  A DMM was involved in an injury.  The MSHA determined that the meter did not meet it's IP67 rating, but did not say that was the cause of the failure.  I wonder what the UL report found?
BeBuLamar:
The case was dismissed because Southwire had the middle man status. So if the meter was a Fluke then Fluke woouldn't have such a status but if it's a Brymen made Greenlee then perhaps Greenlee can claim the middle man status just like Southwire.
joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: tautech on December 26, 2022, 03:46:49 am ---...
Last time I looked I could buy 3 of these cheap junk Flukes to one model 11*  Fluke yet Joe Smith ran a one of these POS Flukes, a 17B+ through his tests and it performed as well as the best of anything else.
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The 17B+ wasn't the only low cost Fluke I looked at.  For those interested, I maintain a spreadsheet that contains which meters I have tested and what levels they were damaged at.  Looking the the current release, there are two Fluke products that are not included.  I ran a 189 but it was obviously old and in poor condition.  The other was a Fluke T6-600 non-contact voltage fork that several people requested I look at after a Canadian expert had posted a video on it.   This meter is very unique and really doesn't fit in with the products I normally look at. 

I am not sure where Fluke makes their products or what defines Country of Origin vs Assembled in USA.  We have discussed this before.   I did post some comments about the general quality of a brand new Fluke 87V manufactured in Dec 2017 compared with a much older one.   Interesting thing with that 87V is the switch contacts are a different design and cut into the PCB, similar to what I saw with that last Keysight meter I looked at.  While the Keysight meter bound up to the point where the knob's plastic shaft broke after a few cycles, the Fluke just made really bad chattering sounds.   
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