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Best multimeter for my price range?
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: J-R on October 06, 2022, 09:54:46 pm ---No VAT from Welectron to US addresses. Also, you could e-mail them for a 5% EEVblog discount code.
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Hmm. No VAT, $9 DHL shipping, no US sales tax, 5% discount, monstrously strong US dollar. That all adds up (or down!) to a pretty good deal really.
--- Quote ---However, the design of the Fluke HV probe provides quite a bit of extra protection to the user. Less risk to slipping with sweaty hands for example. You also get a 75M Ohms input impedance.
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I have one and while it is good for some uses, the two drawbacks are that it is explicitly not rated for mains usage of any type and it can be less accurate than you'd hope for at lower voltages with many meters due to their input impedances in those ranges.
mwb1100:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on October 06, 2022, 11:50:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: J-R on October 06, 2022, 09:54:46 pm ---No VAT from Welectron to US addresses. Also, you could e-mail them for a 5% EEVblog discount code.
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Hmm. No VAT, $9 DHL shipping, no US sales tax, 5% discount, monstrously strong US dollar. That all adds up (or down!) to a pretty good deal really.
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I had forgotten about the 5% discount.
Just as an FYI to the OP since the BM786 is being considered - the 5% discount doesn't apply to that meter for whatever reason (might be an oversight - I don't know). It does apply to other Brymen meters that I've tried it out on including the eevblog BM235, so it's not that the "special edition" eevblog models are excluded from the discount.
Not that the lack of a discount should stop you from buying the BM786 - it didn't stop me earlier this year.
BlueApple:
I think I'm going with the Brymen BM867s. It looks really good for the money.
J-R:
BM78x and BM8xx models are reasonable choices, will come down to what specific features you are looking for.
One negative I see is that the BM857s/BM867s can't measure temperature. With IR guns being so handy, it may not matter.
I didn't see the point with the BM785/BM786 and BM867s so just got the BM789 and BM869s. A lot of the purchase price is accessories and shipping. So it's easy to spend a tiny bit more and get the top model with all the features.
Fungus:
--- Quote from: J-R on October 08, 2022, 12:59:27 am ---One negative I see is that the BM857s/BM867s can't measure temperature. With IR guns being so handy, it may not matter.
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Yep. You can get IR cameras really cheap these days and K-type probes are almost useless in comparison.
--- Quote from: J-R on October 08, 2022, 12:59:27 am ---I didn't see the point with the BM785/BM786 and BM867s.
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Less overloading on the dial? Less button presses to cycle through the ranges?
I don't need temperature - I have other dedicated gadgets for that. I have an oscilloscope so the 100kHz TRMS is moot.
Sometimes less is more...
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