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Personally I wouldn't rely on a meter that gets abused, so you could either:
a) buy one that costs so much that you want to look after it;
or
b) every day, buy the cheapest crappest one on the planet and stamp on it when you've finished using it.
a) buy one that costs so much that you want to look after it;
or
b) every day, buy the cheapest crappest one on the planet and stamp on it when you've finished using it.
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Personally I wouldn't rely on a meter that gets abused, so you could either:
a) buy one that costs so much that you want to look after it;
or
b) every day, buy the cheapest crappest one on the planet and stamp on it when you've finished using it.
By abuse I didn't mean chucking it about Softus but obviously a meter that is used on the job and carried in your van/sack is going to get more knocks than one that is kept at home on the shelf for work in a lab type environment.
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breezer
dont mean the £4.99 one buy one get one free , when the battery is flat throw it away ones do you?
I have a fluke 1577 which I get along with quite nicely, it also has an integrated insulation tester. Solid as you like, but the downside is that the insulation tester and AA batteries add extra bulk.
Just got my dad a Megger Avo 310 for his birthday - again, seems like a nice meter, solid construction, auto ranging, all the usual features and only £80.
Just got my dad a Megger Avo 310 for his birthday - again, seems like a nice meter, solid construction, auto ranging, all the usual features and only £80.
Hmm. I do know what you mean, of course, but my point is this: my metering and testing equipment cost my company (i.e. me) many hundreds of my hard-earned (albeit pre-tax) smackeroonies.tabs said:
This is why I keep the most expensive bits inside the manufacturers-supplied cases, and then inside a hard tool box that contains only meters, testers, batteries, and calibration-checking components - the whole caboodle is probably treated more carefully than my very own genitalia. The impact of not doing this could be very expensive, in terms of either having to replace my equipment or in risking loss of customers' property and or lives.
I also have several £4.99 jobbies whose accuracy is immaterial, and each live wherever I'd least expect to find one but, when I'm desperate, wish the most fervently that they'll be there.
I do not know if they still make them as they used to, but my fluke from somewhere in the 80s has only recently let me know it wants to retire. Believe you me, it has been bumped around, dropped and lived in places where no fluke has gone before. My next one will be a fluke again.
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namsag
Got a fluke that is now over 15 years old an in perfect working order
Me too and it's had lots of use and abuse especially on the marine side of my business.
Buy one from ARGOS £24,99. proper jobbie
Basically testing on boilers, any1 got any recommendations on where to source meters that have been recommended?
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