21 Sep
2010
21 Sep
'10
2:25 p.m.
Tony Duell [ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk] wrote:
FLuke was at least 5 times the price of a cheap meter
with similar
paper specifications. But I do object if what I get isn't much
better than the
cheap version.
That's a bit unfair on the Fluke: it might have been quite a bit better
than my Rolson quite-a-lot-of-functions multimeter (good enough for
continuity tests and fiddling with the car).
Your complaints are that swapping the battery would eventually lead to
a failure which could easily have been prevented by better design
(actually
the Rolson might win there :-)) and that the LCD display failed through
old age (10p says the Rolson won't last that long despite the light
usage it sees).
I cannot really comment on the accuracy of my two cheap and one
not-so-cheap
(but free to me) meters, other than to say that they all matched to
within one
percent (and also matched the equally uncalibrated PSU) but I bet I
could
send my branded one off to be calibrated with a straight face (if I
could afford it)
but the Rolson would cost more in postage alone than the meter did in
the first
place :-)
So do you have a cheap meter against which to compare?
Antonio