21 Sep
2010
21 Sep
'10
1:08 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
As do a lot of people. I used to, before this episode...
The Fluke 85 cost me around 5 times as much as a no-name meter of
comparable specificaitons (on paper). For that I would expect it to be
better designed, better built, and better supports. So far I am not
convinced of any of those :-(
As all of us who do hardware repairs know, a
multimeter is an essential
piece of test equipment.
Agreed and I like the Fluke meters. I have one personally and I insist on
them professionally.
It's totally black for half the
Sure, seen that many times. Bad 'zebra strip' connections are common on
old LCD displays. My fluke suffered from this from time to time, in fact
when I changed the battery most times I would unclip the display cover,
lift out hte dispaly and zebra strips and clean them.
But bad connections do not cause unsgmeented areas of the display to go
black enve when the power is off ...
-tony
height, I asusem the liquid crystal material has
leaked out (although the
glass is not obviously cracked or broken).
Something that I have seen on multiple occasions with Fluke meters is a
problem with the conductive polymer bridge between the circuit board and the
LCD glass. Usually pressing on the case in the right spot makes the display
normal.