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Psi:

--- Quote from: M0HZH on March 01, 2023, 09:53:58 am ---I guess I'd be happy to have my Fluke 287 as the only meter. It is slow and eats through batteries, but it does everything I need.

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I'm picturing a skeleton sitting at a desk waiting for the 287 to start up.

AndyC_772:
My 'travel meter' - the one I take with me to customer sites when I suspect I'll end up measuring something but aren't sure what - is my Fluke 289.

It lives in its case, with a dedicated set of probes and accessories, so I know all I need to do on a field trip is grab that case and chuck it in the back of the car. When I get to site, I know I have everything I need, and won't ever find myself in a situation where I could have measured something useful if only I'd brought a different DMM.

I don't really use it in the lab at all, though - partly because it's slow to boot which is a pain, and partly because I have a Keysight 34465A on my bench.

armandine2:
PROVA 903 comes to mind as one to have, maybe not if you've got one  :-\


vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: Electro Detective on March 01, 2023, 09:45:57 am ---"If you only had one meter?"

Where and under what conditions?  :-//

Lab job, home, shed, under car, dead boat and radio in gale force wind waters,
suspect non labelled 3 phase mains switchboard,
PCB with bloated and 'normal appearance' monster caps,
rich no-life scum cheapass clients hassling you to find problems left by the last tech/s who 'worked cheap' etc

At this point it's 2 meters/meters/? (200cm/2000mm/78.74 inches) of decent quality or nothing for me

Why risk it on one meter that may fail, get dropped/driven over/drowned
or batteries go flat?

That said two AVO8-mk5 analogue needle pointers in a briefcase won't let you down
(especially if shipwrecked on Earth, or spacewrecked on Moon or Mars)
and don't need batteries,
passive features only,
and up to 3kv if you like living terminally dangerously

Active features can be handled by digital Fluke beaters
with 'installed and removed on the day of use' batteries,

assuming there is squeeze room for them in the briefcase,
and no one at interstellar flight control checks the weight   :popcorn:

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AVOs need batteries for the ohms ranges & things like Fluke 77s last for up to years on a 9v battery.
Your "use & remove" batteries would probably not last much longer, as they would run into "shelf life" problems.

coromonadalix:
The prova  dual meter is interesting,  but  it share a ground between the 2 channels  if i recall,  to me it become a no no

The Fluke 189  is by far a good contender

I have the Gossen 28-29  and yes they are a high end meters BUT  the display refresh is a bit "killing them"  for a day to day use,  but  they are  tough to beat, even  the auto detection input mode , ac-dc or ohm mode  is by far the most practical ever seen

They are expensive to calibrate, cost as much as an 6.5 digit meter  soo ....

So   Fluke 189  is the go to
I have Amprobe Am-140    based on FSxxxx  meter mcu(like many other brands), with the somewhat usefull 500,000 count (gimmick)      As useful as the Fluke 189, but i hate it when a fuse blow

Once again i go to the Fluke 189  loll

Never played with the Chauvin Arnoux top series .... but seems pretty good too, and yes expensives ....

But you wrote one meter  lolll         in my case it will be  tough to choose, you gain and or loose at some point,  an overdriven  refresh rates of the Gossens 28-29 would make them perfects  loll

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