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I still miss my old Fluke 77, my new meter does everything but I barely trust the auto range
I pulled out my old Fluke 77 the other day, the one I bought in 1998 for $180 at a shop in Wichita, and it still reads spot on. Now I carry a fancy auto ranging meter that does capacitance and temperature and data logging, but half the time I'm standing there second guessing what range it picked. Back then you turned the dial to ohms, touched the leads, and you knew exactly what you were looking at. Anyone else keep an old meter around just because you don't fully trust the new one to tell you the truth?
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claire_fisher4111d ago
That part about "you knew exactly what you were looking at" is only half true. On the old 77 you still had to pick the range yourself, and if you guessed wrong on a live circuit you got a number that looked fine but was way off, or the display just said OL. I watched a guy read 12 volts on a 240 line because he left it on the wrong range and the meter pulled the voltage down. Auto range gets confused sometimes, sure, but a manual dial punishes you for being sloppy too. The trust you have in that thing is really trust in yourself, not the meter.
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