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Is NON-CONTACT VOLTAGE feature worth it?
Majorassburn:
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--- Quote from: bdunham7 on March 14, 2024, 09:20:13 pm ---Brymen actually makes meters that are sold under the Amprobe and Fluke names, as well as Greenlee which is their biggest label.
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Really? I Didn't know that Danaher/Fortive used Brymen for their Fluke & Amprobe DMM's...wasn't aware of that. Specifically, which Fluke or Amprobe DMM's are made by Brymen?
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Hi, again. When you can, please let me know which Fluke & Amprobe meters are made by Brymen? I knew about Greenlee but not the others. Thanks for the info.
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: Majorassburn on March 15, 2024, 06:32:17 pm ---Hi, again. When you can, please let me know which Fluke & Amprobe meters are made by Brymen? I knew about Greenlee but not the others. Thanks for the info.
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You'd have to search past threads, examples have been posted. Mostly current clamp meters IIRC, perhaps some other products. These are not just rebadged Brymen products like with Greenlee. It appears that Fluke is using Brymen as an OEM for Fluke-specific products. Somewhere there's a photo of a disassembled Fluke clamp meter with a "BTC" mark on its main chip, so you can make of that what you wish.
Majorassburn:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on March 15, 2024, 07:07:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: Majorassburn on March 15, 2024, 06:32:17 pm ---Hi, again. When you can, please let me know which Fluke & Amprobe meters are made by Brymen? I knew about Greenlee but not the others. Thanks for the info.
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You'd have to search past threads, examples have been posted. Mostly current clamp meters IIRC, perhaps some other products. These are not just rebadged Brymen products like with Greenlee. It appears that Fluke is using Brymen as an OEM for Fluke-specific products. Somewhere there's a photo of a disassembled Fluke clamp meter with a "BTC" mark on its main chip, so you can make of that what you wish.
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Thanks for that info. Although, what you said was that they made Fluke & Amprobe meters which, according to Fluke Sales is not true. That's why I was so curious.
I can believe that Fluke & Amprobe might source chips from Brymen and whoever else makes what they're looking for but, that's a long way from making their meters.
As you know, Fluke makes a big deal about their meters being assembled in the USA. To have a Taiwanese company like Brymen make them and then for Fluke and Amprobe to sell them as USA-assembled would be quite surprising and dishonest especially because they are GSA-qualified vendors to the U.S. Government and Brymen-made meters with a Fluke or Amprobe brand label on them would not qualify under those same GSA rules.
I really like the Brymen 869s but their AC accuracy spec is crappy and makes the LSD useless. Maybe I'll take a shot at one anyway. I like their features overall when I can figure out what they cost in USD$.
Thanks again for your response.
shapirus:
--- Quote from: Majorassburn on March 15, 2024, 08:10:42 pm ---I really like the Brymen 869s but their AC accuracy spec is crappy and makes the LSD useless.
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It's almost exactly the same as, for example, the Fluke 289's AC spec. Very little difference over the entire range of voltages and frequencies, with one being slightly better in one area and slightly worse in another.
"Crappy" is relative. What are we comparing it with?
HKJ:
AC specs is always crappy compared to DC specs and there is a very good reason for that (If you know the math you know why).
I like good non-contact detectors, but have never seen a DMM with that and very few loose detectors that live up to that. Generally it is easy to make a non-contact detector, but it is hard to make one that only alarms when it is pointed at a single live wire with mains voltage.
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