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I would have kept the Fluke

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In Reply to: Multimeters posted by jeffreybehr on November 16, 2005 at 10:05:16:

Fluke has a long standing reputation of high quality test equipment.
You may have just traded accuracy and dependability for bells and whistles that as you said you would probably never use.

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Re: I would have kept the Fluke - pkell44 16:36:57 11/16/05 (0)
I think selling the Fluke was a fluke, Hein
Happy Metering !
Maybe so, but it didn't work and was too expensive to fix. - jeffreybehr 15:20:02 11/16/05 (1)
And it's only some of the bells and whistles I won't use. I definitely will be using the inductance and capacitance metering, the former of which I didn't have and the latter of which wasn't reliable and needed calibration.
- Well, you did not say the Fluke was broken. - Tweekeng 09:43:17 11/17/05 (0)
  I would have replaced a broken meter too.
  But you do realize that these hand held meters (Flukes included) C and L measurements are ballpark estimates at best. The 37XR is rated 3% accuracy for caps and 5% for inductors. That's ok if you are repairing something and just want to know if this cap or coil is good or bad but hardly enough for designing or tweaks like matching components where accuracy is important. Does it even compensate for lead capacitance or inductance?

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