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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: stigwurx on August 18, 2015, 07:32:32 pm
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Having tired of my $15 catalog store multimeter and borrowing my cousins HP54501 behemoth scope (which meant clearing quarter of my worbench every time and a hernia from carrying it) budget and the venerable Dave lead me to acquire a UT61D and a DS1054Z. Externally and functionally ( without any yardstick to measure by) the meter seems to do exactly what it says on the tin, slow acquisition but the update rates in the specs for this meter aren't anything to write home about so that would seem par for the course
Internally however it does jingle a few alarm bells as it does differ in several ways from all the gut shots of this device that I've seen (regarding protection).Both fuses are 25x6.3mm only, several cutouts are not present several miscellaneous components are also not present and as one final item the model number 61D in the bottom left is done in the silk screen and not in the copper etch as all of the other pics I've seen show.
I'm guessing it's not a fake because, as I've read elsewhere, who would fake a low end meter? That said if they can shift them in volume then they're probably as attractive a mark as high end devices for cloning. Bought from a German Ebay seller Pinsonne-Elektronik, maybe I should say Germany based, for AU $58, too good to be true or is this just a version of this model they flog in less exacting markets?
Forgive me if I failed to tack this onto the end of a related pre-existing thread, this is my newbie post.I've attached pics for your perusal, comments anyone?
Ps thanks to the forum it's a mine of info that's got me out of shtuck several times.
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It's the generic UT61D model, sold everywhere, including eBay. There may be a EU version of the model sold by EU distributors, with more protections or better fuses just as is the case with UT61E.
The silkscreen on the pcb seems to indicate the pcb was made in February 2010 (2010 02 07 - 7) so maybe you're comparing your old multimeter with models that have newer revisions of the pcb ?
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Thanks for that, as I said the meter functions as advertised but I just have an aversion to buying knock offs and wanted a second opinion on its possible lineage.
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The pictures you've seen are probably of newer revisions like mariush said.
The UT61E also has had updates like extra spark gaps. I can hardly believe they would downgrade their design.
Comparing your pictures to others it looks like they've made the exact same changes to the 61D as they did to the 61E
Bit surprising you still managed to get hold of one which was produced 5 years ago.
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Bought from a German Ebay seller Pinsonne-Elektronik, maybe I should say Germany based, for AU $58, too good to be true or is this just a version of this model they flog in less exacting markets?
This is the non-GS, one might say China, version. It also has a RS232 interface instead of USB, right? The CAT ratings on it are shamelessly overblown.
Pinsonne for some reason only sell this version. The better GS version (but with downrated, eehh, a bit more realistic CAT ;-) can be bought e.g. from german resellers Batronix or Reichelt. It costs a bit more of course, 55 - 60 Euros plus delivery.