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Decided to Buy Brymen 869s - Help Me Avoid Buyers Remorse
shapirus:
--- Quote from: temperance on March 24, 2024, 09:22:24 pm ---How does the continuity beeper work?
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Perfectly.
--- Quote from: temperance on March 24, 2024, 09:22:24 pm ---Do Brymen DMM's go up in smoke if it's on resistance and you plug into a wall socket? That will happen anyhow sooner or later.
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I believe I saw a vid where someone tested it, and the meter survived (as many decent DMMs do). Don't quote me on this though, better search yourself -- there has to be a lot of vids showing transient protection, user error protection etc.
Fungus:
--- Quote from: shapirus on March 24, 2024, 09:54:04 pm ---I believe I saw a vid where someone tested it, and the meter survived (as many decent DMMs do). Don't quote me on this though, better search yourself -- there has to be a lot of vids showing transient protection, user error protection etc.
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There's also vids of people hooking them up to machines and turning the selector switch 100,000 times then looking for wear under a microscope.
Result: A Brymen is as good as a Fluke.
(And Keysights fall apart after a couple of thousand turns)
shapirus:
--- Quote from: temperance on March 24, 2024, 09:22:24 pm ---That applies to any handheld DMM.
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Not exactly any. A counterexample is a super cheap Uni-T UT33A+, which has a usable 2 nF range.
Watch around 3:35:
I don't know for sure, but it can't be the only DMM with a low-nF capacitance range.
--- Quote from: temperance on March 24, 2024, 09:22:24 pm ---Holding the probes is enough to screw up any measurement below a few nF's.
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Yes, but that's irrelevant to not having a sufficiently low range.
Fungus:
--- Quote from: Fungus on March 24, 2024, 10:53:54 pm ---There's also vids of people hooking them up to machines and turning the selector switch 100,000 times then looking for wear under a microscope.
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Oooh, Joe's here...
Just to be clear, that's 50,000 times to the far end of the dial then 50,000 times back again.
temperance:
Superb, next meter will be a Brymen. That's if the Fluke fails because I don't need that many meters.
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