Products > Test Equipment

Was your first meter a "trashy" meter?

<< < (12/18) > >>

Fungus:
So... a lot of people here started in the pre-trash era.

Many even before DMMs were a thing.

 8)

pdenisowski:

--- Quote from: H713 on March 26, 2023, 05:17:19 am ---Mine was an original Fluke 77 .... They're old-fashioned and a little limited, but I wouldn't exactly call them trashy.

--- End quote ---

That was the meter that replaced my analog Radio Shack meter when I was in grad school.  It's still my daily-use meter :)

Warhawk:
Yes, it was a trashy multimeter. However, for the price I paid one would get a reasonable Brymen nowadays. Not only electronics but literaly everything for home science has never been more affordable. Yet many youngsters waste their potential on TokTok and other crap.

tautech:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on March 23, 2023, 09:03:59 pm ---How about this one I inherited?

Actually I had two of them, and IIRC still have one. It was a truly crappy meter that heavily loaded any circuit you connected it to (25Ω/V !!!)  |O

--- End quote ---
They do charge more for LoZ meters these days, maybe you didn't understand the highly featured meter you have.  ;D

rdl:
I did buy my first multimeter at Radio Shack They were called "multitesters" back then. It was the 22-204, one of their best analog meters. They did sell a few digital meters at that time (all 3.5 digit), but I really wanted one with the big meter. A few years later in 1987 I bought one of their new 22-175 digital "benchtop" meters, which I soon blew up by dropping a probe into a 3000 volt laser power supply. I kept it though because it could still measure capacitance.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

There was an error while thanking
Thanking...
Go to full version
Powered by SMFPacks Advanced Attachments Uploader Mod