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seek multimeter that not eat batteries or turn off
huggybear404:
no this use 9v batt which is 6x aaa in series so I waste not two but 6 pricy batteries for every use and 20hrs to buy batt is not impressive.
and thats what the ad promise so I dont trust it and its twice the price of the 1041 and I not love spend more than 100 euros ,some of my meters cost 5 euros tho ofcoz quality wont quite match on those. All the meters i have today are hand held ones upto a 60 euro biltema one
I know there is meters costing 3-400 euros or more but then how will I dare use them , if I check current and then forget to change mode to voltage it goes bang and I need to mortgage house to replace it > not ideal.
the 1041 seems a hundred times better and more useful than the one you list and also half price , seems fairly accurate as well
is there a better similar option thats not more expensive ? I see some say it has some bugs in the firmware , slow autoranging for caps etc
I seldom measure voltages over mains so 500 or 1000v cover most of my needs and If i need more I can use resistor divider
BeBuLamar:
--- Quote from: huggybear404 on April 29, 2023, 09:35:32 am ---I repair all kinds of equpment from computers to amplifiers with rails +- over 100volt to crts with high voltage points and thats for sure not when I want meter to beep at me within minutes of turn it on. I like the xdm1041 or 1241 and will probably get one of those. I have never seen any meter with 9v battery last long time, I wish most meters use 2x aa or better yet lithium cell that recharge easy and not micro usb ports that wear out in 10 uses. I hate the aaa with max 100 mah capacity used in all kinds of things, feels like a competition to sell new batteries to get rich... My scale came with 3v clock battery to make sure I keep buy new ones, I modded it with an old mobile phone cell and now it runs years before charge.
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So whatever you work on can be placed on a bench? If so get an AC powered meter. Also you do this as a hobby? If you do this for a living you should earn enough that a $1000 DMM won't break your bank.
David Hess:
--- Quote from: David Hess on April 11, 2023, 04:56:24 pm ---Older meters, even from Fluke, often ran for 2000+ hours on a 9 volt alkaline battery. I have not seen any modern meters with long battery life.
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I should have included that old meters that lasted 2000+ hours were also manual ranging meters. One of the disadvantages at the time with autoranging multimeters was much lower battery life. These days all multimeters have poor battery life though.
IanB:
--- Quote from: David Hess on April 30, 2023, 10:46:41 am ---I should have included that old meters that lasted 2000+ hours were also manual ranging meters. One of the disadvantages at the time with autoranging multimeters was much lower battery life. These days all multimeters have poor battery life though.
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I don't know about 2000+ hours, but the discontinued RadioShack 22-812 meter is autoranging with a 9 V battery, and it runs for months, even years, between battery changes. I have left it switched on for many hours while data logging without any noticeable impact on the battery.
Fungus:
Fluke 27s are autoranging and go for 1000s of hours.
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