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Was your first meter a "trashy" meter?
aeberbach:
I had one of Dick Smith’s finest analog meters. Weirdly it came with a spill of some kind of lacquer on one of the battery contacts so that it appeared dead out of the box… once scraped off it was great for many years and then I burned the movement coil doing something dumb. After that a Hioki card tester (must be in a drawer somewhere?) and then a Fluke. Still a Fluke, doubt it will ever be any other.
CatalinaWOW:
My first was somewhere in no mans land, a low cost meter from Allied Electronics. Somewhat resembles XRunners. Somewhere in my early moves the actual meter part was crushed. I saved the carcass, planning to salvage the fairly high quality switch and what I at the time thought were pretty good resistors. None of the salvage ever happened but the carcass is still probably hanging around in one of the junk bins.
NoisyBoy:
My first was a Sanwa YX-360TR, I bought it new while I was in high school. I recalled going to the electronics supply store to buy the meter, my reason for choosing it was its ability to measur hfe, quite a novelty back in the days. I don't recall how much I paid for it, but its construction is far nicer than the YX-360 variants they sell today.
The meter has been with me ever since, I don't really use it any more. But when I measure a battery this evening, it is still within the 3% FS error in the spec.
My first digital DMM was a Fluke 8000A, it is still in use.
NoisyBoy:
Picture of the internal.
H713:
Mine was an original Fluke 77, I think when I was like eight or nine. It was a pretty ancient meter then, but was given to me by a family member who had bought it new.
Honestly I still use some of my Fluke 77s, and still have quite an army of 77s and 73s at work. For 95% of what a handheld meter gets used for, they're just fine.
They're old-fashioned and a little limited, but I wouldn't exactly call them trashy.
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