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Poll: Handheld meters with minimally-annoying auto power off (APO)

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mwb1100:
Fluke 187/189 lets you set the APO timer to up to 24 hours - or disable it completely - in the settings.  Just set it to 4, 6, 8, or whatever hours and forget about it.

Per Hansson:
I have another category for you:
Aneng AN8009 has auto power off after 15 minutes even if you are actively using it.
There is also a beep warning at 14 minutes that it will power off in the next minute.
If you hold down the yellow select button when powering on the auto power off is disabled.
However the meter still beeps at you after 14 minutes and then 15 minutes.
Or put more succinctly:

Switch on:
00:00 beep!
14:15 beep beep beep beep beep!
15:15 beep beep beep beep beep! (then powers off).

Switch on with SEL held down:
00:00 beep beep beep beep beep!
14:15 beep beep beep beep beep!
15:15 beep beep beep beep beep! (does not power off).
29:30 beep beep beep beep beep!
30:30 beep beep beep beep beep!
(repeats indefinitely).
 :-DD

Fungus:

--- Quote from: Per Hansson on April 02, 2023, 08:44:46 pm ---(repeats indefinitely).
 :-DD

--- End quote ---

 :palm:

py-bb:

--- Quote from: Fungus on March 30, 2023, 03:03:32 pm ---Following up on the handheld-vs-benchtop meter debate...

Let's make a list of handheld meters that will auto-power-off silently then wake up in the same mode with a single button press, ie. they aren't annoying to use on the bench all day long.

:) Meters that DO this:
Brymen: BM857  BM789  BM235


Caveat: They lose min/max/rel values but if you're doing a long min/max session you need to temporarily disable APO anyway....

:( Meters that power back on with a button but lose the secondary function setting (eg. they APO in continuity mode then come back on in Ohms mode):
Fluke: 87, 187, 189, 289


:-\ Meters that don't have APO (or can disable APO permanently) and have a really long battery life (1000 hours or more):
Fluke: 27FM   37FM

Other: DT830 ("Harbor Freight")


:( Meters that beep when turning off and/or require you to turn the dial to wake them up:
Fluke: 101
Kaiweets: HT118E


>:( Special hell:  Meters that beep twice - once to warn you they're about to APO then again a minute later when they actually do it.
Aneng: AN860  AN870  V04A   AN8008
Surpeer: AV4

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What do I vote if my main meter doesn't just go off? I love it because even the backlight stays on until I tell it to turn it off (so I can leave it on reading stuff)

shapirus:
BM869s: turns off without a beep, then, on key press, powers back on to the same function and secondary function where it was. Range isn't preserved though: it goes to auto-range regardless of what was selected.

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