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Fluke 17B+ (Plus)

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Andrey_Ak:
https://tis.kz/temp/Fl-01.jpg
https://tis.kz/temp/Fl-02.jpg
https://tis.kz/temp/Fl-03.jpg

Well, this is definitely not a version for the Chinese market.

Or do you think that there are no such problems with the old Fluke 17B+?

Veteran68:
To my knowledge this 15/17/18 series of meters have always been made in China, or at least for a long time now. I might be misremembering but I thought at one time they were available in the US, but at least at the moment they are not for sale by Fluke here. You can go to Fluke's site and find the 17B Max (newest generation, which I have)... until you tell the site you're in the US, then it disappears from the catalog.

Also the 17B Max has replaced the 17B+, upgrading to 6000 counts from 4000 and support for 2000uF capacitance, along with a few other new features. You can also buy it in a kit with both TL75 and TL31 (needle point) probes, which is what I got. BTW have I mentioned how much I hate TL75 leads these days? They're total crap. The TL75s that came with my 2013 vintage 87V aren't nearly as bad as the current ones. I use Brymen leads with my Fluke 117 and the still bad but less bad TL31's in the 17B Max. I'd use ProbeMasters for all of them like I do my bench meters, but they're a bit too bulky for use with smaller meters, IMO. The Brymen leads are excellent though for the money.

mqsaharan:
Hi Andrey_Ak,
Thank you for the inside pic of your 17B+. Indeed, I haven't seen one without a COB.

The following link is to a message I posted regarding a video I found on Youtube (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/fluke-1517-bmax-slow-settling-on-resistance-function/). The guy in the video pointed to this slow settling issue and offered a solution.
Please note that I haven't tried it myself, yet. Also, if you look closely in the video, the problem of slow settling is not completely resolved.

Andrey_Ak:
Yes, thank you, I have already heard about replacing this capacitor with a smaller capacity, but why did Fluke do this, I want to understand they did it on purpose? I don't want to try to change the capacitor yet, I wrote to the support service where I bought the device, let's see what they will say..

mqsaharan:
If they replied, please do share with us.

The 27n capacitor they have installed between FTC (pin 7) and FTB (Pin8), ADC pre-filter capacitor connection pins, is suggested in datasheet of the multimeter chip on page 46, heading 8.2 ADC.

May be its just the limitation of the chip itself.

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