re dmm advice needed kolstad cae wisc edu joel kolstad writes in article aa insane apana org au peter m insane apana org a if you are going to use one where it counts eg aviation space scuttle etc then i suggest you go and buy a fluke never seen a beckman however for every other use you can buy a cheapie my beckman died a few days ago thanks do about a or foot drop onto a lab table probably not indicative of anything but i ve already filled out the requisition for a fluke oh yeah and sometimes our measurements here do count not often but often enough that i want at least one good meter joel kolstad we used to buy beckman and hd ruggedized versions for use by electricians in the steel mill where i work after a while we got round to filling all the current input jacks with silicone electricians have a regrettable habit of not checking where the last guy left the leads before using a digit autoranging meter to check if a fuse is good or not its very hard on meters and electricians when you put the milliamp shunt across a volt bus but that s not why we stopped buying beckmans after a while a lot of them got funny in the lcd display a black stain would spread from one edge or else they d come adrift from those zebra connectors and fail to operate now we buy flukes the low end series mostly and we still fill the amp jack with silicone what the world needs is a meter that won t let you change ranges or turn it on off with a lead stuck in the amps jack a little bit of clever plastic detailing would take care of this and make the world safer for electricans anyway not that i ve ever put a meter on the wrong range into a live circuit no not me not more than a dozen times anyway bill bills inqmind bison mb ca the inquiring mind bbs winnipeg manitoba
