It’s not a premium brand for sure but it has traceable CAT ratings, good basic accuracy, reasonable design (I actually looked at that set of pictures) and is made with intent of being a good meter rather than to reach a price point. I’ve got a mid range Keysight U1241C which is the “first grab” meter. I expect it to be worse than that.
Red I agree. But what have you got left? Fluke took yellow, Keysight took orange and all the other colours suck
Thanks for the cal manual.
Edit: I did actually buy an AN8008 but some enterprising individual in China nicked it before it even got on the aeroplane.
BTW my last non second hand refurb/fix fluke DMM was a 77 which I owned from 1990 to 2002 I think it was. It was a going to university present from my father. Genuinely wish I hadn’t sold that. But I had to eat
I had a 0th generation 87 as my go-to meter from my stint with Philips Lighting; they had them in the factory before you could buy them. It had a hand-written serial number and cal certification from Fluke inside on the mainboard. I kept it as part of my "severance" package along with some power supplies, a "Annie" cap analyzer, numerous bits of lab gear and several drawer units full of ECG components when they closed down 3 buildings and moved my entire division overseas like days after NAFTA was signed. Somebody else (probably management) beat me to the scopes and waveform generators.
It was stolen during a move in 2015, so right around 30 years I had that 87; it was definitely "an old friend". I still have a couple spare connector blocks and zebra strips for it in one of my bins (3 units were cheaper than two; you know how it is sometimes), just in case I do get a meter they'll fit.
If you ever see an 87 with no serial number branded into the case and a
royal blue backlight, you probably found mine.
mnem
*Currently nuking an iPod Nano*