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Was your first meter a "trashy" meter?

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wasedadoc:

--- Quote from: Calambres on April 02, 2023, 09:42:50 am ---Mi first multimeter was a very good high end ICE 680-R, an european (italian) classic of the era. I bought it somewhere around 1978 and I had to save a lot of time to get the funds for such an expensive meter. I still have it today and is still working like new.

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A few years before that I bought and still have its smaller brother the ICE Microtest 80.  Supplied with English manual which has 'Electronic Brokers Ltd 49/53 Pancras Road London' printed on the rear cover.  Same method of range selection by inserting probes into appropriate hole. Still works fine except the resistance ranges because it took a mercury button cell RM627 which is no longer manufactured.  The circuit relied on the very accurate and stable voltage of such mercury cell to obviate the need for a zero ohms adjuster.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ice_microtest_80.html

It was not my first meter.  That was an Avo Multiminor Mk 4 purchased around 1965.

Aldo22:
My first meter was a Ц4324 from the USSR.
I think it's still in the basement somewhere.
For the price it was ok back then, as far as I can remember.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/maschprib_vielfachmessgeraet_u4324.html?language_id=2

sorenkir:
VOC 2035V from 1980 (french brand but it is a rebadged sabtronics 2035A).
3 1/2 digits 0.1%



Still in spec:



Sabtronics Ad  :-DD
https://www.industrial-electronics.com/re_elec-1981-09_sab.html

Michel.

andyB2022:
My very first meter was this:
 :-DMM


At that time I didn't even know the names of high end manufacturers like Fluke, Agilent, Brymen etc...
Of course I still have the meter, it was blown in the A range and that is why I've moved to a UNI-T.
Time flies...

Dave Wise:
floobydust, thanks for the trip down memory lane.  Was I rich because I got an allowance?  I saved and saved and saved and finally bought a 28-4014 Archer 50K/V Range Doubler VOM kit.  After assembling it I was so excited I forgot to check the knob position, and I stuck the prods into the wall outlet and blew out a resistor.  I bodged in a replacement and used that meter for years.  I dropped it a few times and kept using it, keeping it in the shipping box in lieu of cabinet.

Today my trashy meters are a DT-830B given to me at work, and a Micronta 22-191 DMM I found tucked inside a yard sale mystery box.  I use them without shame any time they are at hand.  If my Fluke 87 is closer, then I use that.   ^-^

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