In Reply to: Show us your multimeters! posted by Crazy Dave on September 29, 2016 at 11:29:35:
Automotive Fluke here. About a thousand years old. Double-branded as a Mac ET-88, but it's a first-generation Fluke 88. Had some issues with it--the display goes flaky from time to time, but disassembly and cleaning the contacts with a pencil eraser puts it in fine order for another couple of years.
Was having trouble with flaky readings--the reading would never "settle"; so I had to guess at the true reading while the meter indicated a moving target. Was about to buy another meter, when on a whim, I replaced the test leads. Problem solved.
The internal fuses are hatefully expensive. There's a kit to put an external fuse into the test leads...but that sounds like trouble to me.
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