Vince,
Don't buy TE while you are ill.
If looking at a 4W DMM consider the Fluke 8845 and various Keitleys (not just the 2000, I like my 199, 5-3/4 digit 299999 count 4W, LED and I only paid £125).
Get well soon and good work by the boss sending you home.
Robert G8RPI.
Feeling half decent now, I feel enough energy to do some typing !
4W meters : thanks people for the replies.
No I am not buying anything while ill.. or not ill either. Still have a gaping 6,000 euros hole in my bank account, slowly filling up now I got a new job, but will take at least a year... but more like 3 because I still need to finance the construction of the garage. So need to do two contradictory things at the same time.... not spend, so I can fill the hole/pit, yet I do need to spend for the garage... so the compromise is to fill the hole as much as I can right now, and when spring comes, dig again in that hole to pour the concrete slab, the fill the hole partially again... then erect the walls, rinse and repeat... then when the garage is finished I can fill the hole one and for hole and be done with my debt.
Anyway, that means I am responsible enough not to spend any 3 digit money on anything for the lab.
The only purchases I allow myself, as usual are the occasional low two digit sums for that cool rare piece of vintage TE that comes along, because when you see it you know you will never see another one in a reasonable time frame, or maybe not for as cheap or as good a condition... so, that's why I still allow myself small expenses for rare vintage stuff, and a few Euros to restore them.
But for anything that is more much easily available , and is more expensive to boot, it's a definite no-no.
I don't want a bench meter to have 4W, but I do want my future bench meter to have 4W... if that makes sense.
My main goal with a bench meter is to have at least one very accurate voltmeter in the lab, and since these cost money, I would rather want it to do 4W as well for increased bang for buck, so that I don't have to buy yet another meter just for that (that would take extra space as well)
Robert, the Fluke model you suggested costs 1,500 Euros ! Are you trying to bankrupt me more than I already am ?!
I guess you meant to say the older models like Spec mentioned afterwards...