Fluke DMM owner communications

[NoisyBoy]

Fluke has been sending me regular email with regard to their products, however, but almost of them are geared towards field electricians.  Are any of you getting the same emails?  If so, I wonder if their long term strategy after being acquired by Danaher is primarily the electrician market.  Which would be a shame as they used to have some decent lab DMMs.

[tooki]

Huh? Field and industrial electricians, HVAC, etc has always been Fluke’s primary customer group. Lab gear has always been a distant second for Fluke. (Danaher went after that market by acquiring Tektronix and Keithley.)

Heck, for many years now, most Fluke bench DMMs have simply been rebadged Tektronix models.

[NoisyBoy]

You are right, but the very one-sided email makes me wonder if Fluke will exit the lab market all together and let Keithley and Tek take that over.

I have to agree that Fluke makes excellent field meters, mine is fast, accurate and dependable.  Along with the lifetime warranty, it is a good buy.

[tooki]

One-sided? It would be weird if most of their emails were NOT about electricians' tools, since that is, and always has been, their core market. Like... it seems to me you have very odd expectations!

If Fluke exited the lab, what products would they be giving up exactly?? They have three bench multimeters (all rebadged Teks), and a few data acquisition products. That's it, as far as lab gear. And all of that is also sold by Fluke Calibration.

Bear in mind that Fluke Calibration makes a whole bunch of lab gear, but Fluke Calibration is run as a separate company (I'm not sure about the exact corporate structure, but it's listed under "Other Fluke companies" on fluke.com), so their products won't be in the regular Fluke newsletter. Fluke Cal has its own newsletter you can sign up for: https://us.flukecal.com/subscribe

[NoisyBoy]

Thanks of letting me know, as I was not aware of the separate calibration entity and newsletters, I will definitely sign up for that.