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Vichy VC99 Multimeter Review and Teardown
Kevin.D:
Thats a nice common sense , objective review ,giving only the information nescessary .
Like you say it's very easy these days to make an accurate meter , something like this ideal if your only using it on low voltage electronics or as an often needed second meter to your expensive high cat rated one .
Rick:
--- Quote from: retiredcaps on October 22, 2012, 07:19:17 pm ---For USA members, this Fluke 77 IV for $35 USD Buy It Now may be a good deal (with the usual ebay caveats) if you don't mind a missing battery door and no probes.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/160907013378
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Besides that it is quite risky to buy from people who have many negative and neutral comments... even if I were in USA I wouldn't buy from him.
Amarbir[Lynx-India]:
--- Quote from: electronupdate on October 21, 2012, 11:58:00 pm ---This is a $35 auto-ranging multimeter. I have seen it on lots of blogs and online discussion and it seemed like a pretty good value. It was hard to resist buying at that price...
The meter's measurement functions and specification are good on paper. I put it through the paces and indeed, it seems to be as advertised.
It's definitely built down to a specific price however.
It's interesting how you can buy a multimeter anywhere from $10 to $100 in $10 increments these days, with each increment in $'s buying just a bit more quality. Good measurement accuracy, however, seems to be common even in these very low cost meters.
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Sir ,
can you share that website link of vichy please
electronupdate:
Hi Amarbir,
Their english web site is: http://vicimeter.com/en/index.asp
To the person who asked if the autoranging of the meter can be speed up: The main controller chip appears to be a "FS9922-DMM4" from Fortune Semiconductor. If you google it, a pdf data sheet is readily available. The only oscillator control appears to be crystal. In theory that that could be replaced with a higher value, however, this would be overclocking outside of the data sheet so there is no guarantee it work(and the frequency counter, for sure, would now be inaccurate).
GEuser:
Thanks electronupdate , i'll look at it a bit later but i gather it'll have a crystal there that is already at maximum ratings(speed)i hope , did you notice the frequency in the review? but don't fret if you did not as i'll look in mine at a later date , yet it will be interesting to have a look anyway of the data sheet of the ic .
cheers....
edited>added> just took a quick look and 4mhz in data-sheet , and wow , alot of features in that small ic imo ...
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