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Big Clive's "Trashy" meter, unboxed ( Duratool D03047 multimeter )

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joeqsmith:
Being exposed to ESD is common for the average person.   Playing around with DC at kV levels wouldn't be unheard of for those of us on this site.  If people are concerned about safety, I suggest using the DOD's safety standard as a guide.     

https://www.energy.gov/ehss/doe-electrical-safety-program

David Aurora:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 14, 2023, 10:40:42 am ---
--- Quote from: David Aurora on April 13, 2023, 12:01:17 pm ---Hell, "Fuck you I like them" is a perfectly good reason too. I was just trying to understand the attraction.

--- End quote ---

Clive's entire channel and schtick is built on $5 trashy things. Totally on brand for his channel.

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For sure. I watch his channel often and like it. I'm just getting pretty strong vibes here that Clive essentially saying "This works OK for $5 and I didn't die" is being taken as "I found a video on the internet that totally backs up my confirmation bias about my $5 meter being the cats ass"

Fungus:

--- Quote from: David Aurora on April 17, 2023, 12:25:57 am ---For sure. I watch his channel often and like it. I'm just getting pretty strong vibes here that Clive essentially saying "This works OK for $5 and I didn't die"

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I's almost as if you didn't bother to watch the video. Clive specifically says not to use these "at work".

The only person who mentioned "death" was you.

Fungus:

--- Quote from: joeqsmith on April 16, 2023, 08:02:28 pm ---Newer style on the left is now marked 250VDC compared with the original 1kV marking.

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...which will have no effect at all on number of deaths (if there are any). 

People know they have 110V/230V at home so they'll think these meters are good for that.


--- Quote from: joeqsmith on April 16, 2023, 08:23:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fungus on April 16, 2023, 08:07:06 pm ---But they still measure/display 1kV, right?

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I guess posting it was a kV and having the three meters reading a kV still left you with that question.

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It was kind of rhetorical just to emphasize that nothing changed on the inside. It's only the label that changed.

Fungus:
Regarding safety of "830" meters, I think the most likely effect of a big transient at home is that they'll go "pop" and cease to function.

nb I don't have any hard data to back that up* but there's plenty of soft data, eg. Harbor Freight isn't involved in any class-action lawsuits for giving away millions of these "devices-of-death".

Me? I'd be much more worried about people putting the leads in the wrong holes and connecting it to mains AC than about transients. The fuses in this meter will make it just as safe as most $20 meters in this situation, if not safer - my Anengs only have 250V fuses in them.

(*) I don't have access to a suitable testing facility.

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