Coffee kills them, damp randomly seems to trash them, and snapping the dial off the front of the fluke 100s seems easy (I don't know how, I only see the remains). Equally there's perfect working mk11 70 series here & my old 867s nearly black from ingrained oil & still passes calibration.
AVO model 8. can't beat it. ;-)
Well, not for working on older electronics, anyway, as it was the reference meter for most circuit diagram voltages until the 70s at least.
For a car, the cheapest you can get, 'cos IME, they last about three jobs before they get soaked, dropped, trodden on, borrowed, lost.....
Yup, and the front end electronics bandwidth isn't so hot.
My cheap B&K is about 20% off at 1KHz. It actually reads peak voltage and uses a fudge factor to get RMS, which is fine for sine waves but not so fine otherwise.
The Fluke 77 is right on the money, but then again the calibration specs certify it to be.
Surprisingly, my Simpson 260 seems to be accurate up to above 10 Khz, which I never would have believed if I hadn't tested it.
--scott
Look at the post I was replying to; we were discussing the relative merits of cheap vs expensive DMM's surviving *physical* events.
BTW, it's generally selecting a current range and connecting across a supply that kills them electrically; even Fluke die when you do that enough times.
You must have a whole different class of average jerks where you come from! Some of the guys I worked with would kill at least one a year...
Chris
Well, I was thinking home/occasional usage. Daily usage in an automotive shop would be far more abusive, of course.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Other Mike saying something like:
ShiteOldJapaneseCar
Which "lot" do Jaguar buy their cars from, then?
Compared to anything Bangle touched it's a classic.
The Other Mike gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
ITYM "It might be a not-particularly-well-built bag of s**te, but at least it's merely aesthetically bland rather than actively hideous..."
And as for the much-maligned Mr Bangle, I can only say "Fiat Coupe". He _can_ design gorgeous stuff, he just chose not to whilst at BMW.
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