They also made them in Singapore too and I avoid buying those.
Then you should avoid all the Fluke equipments for example.
Made in the US as they were before they are no more. Assembled in the US with US parts and non US Parts should be the right nomenclature.
ADI is a US company in California, factories in Malaysia and US (LT1116 is a Ground-Sensing Comparator from ADI used in the 87V);
Vishay is an US company, factories in Israel, US, Germany and Mexico (Dale WRS-2 Power Metal Strip Resistors from Vishay is used in the 87V).
That just to mention 2 of them. In this connected world, trying to keep nationalisms is a lost of time. Products and brands should be judged by their quality, not from where they were manufactured.
I always had contact with Fluke during education and in my first job, where all the measurement equipments were from Fluke/Phillips, and that made me choose the Fluke 289 FVF Kit as my first Fluke acquisition at full price back in 2007.
Independent if it was a good buy or not or if there was at the time better equipments in the market with the same functionalities for less, I made the choice because of my background and the confidence I had in the brand and what I needed at the time. After that bought used both the Fluke 54II in 2008 and a Fluke 87V in 2019 as my last acquisition.
I had problems both with the 289 (supercap draining the batteries in less than 2 weeks) and the 54II (temperature probe socket solder cracked from the PCB) and they repaired without any questions asked (specially the 54II that were outside of warranty already for about 2 years). That is what I call a great support after sales and a way to keep a customer, specially when they didn't had to repair for free some equipment that I wasn't the first owner and were outside of warranty.
Although I recommended to close friends looking for specific DMMs, models from UNI-T and last one was a Brymen. Why because I see them as excellent alternatives (depending of the kind of use) from a Fluke. I would probably in a near future buy a EEVBlog Brymen directly from Dave not because I need but because I believe in what the brand achieved and to support Dave himself.
I couldn't care less if Brymen, Fluke, Uni-T, Keysight, etc is made in China, Taiwan, Israel, US, EU, etc. I choose an equipment by the following:
- First a big emphasis in Safety;
- Second functions that I need;
- Third price I'm willing to pay.