Question with Fluke 17B

[diracshore]

Just got this unit in, and first impressions are very good. Its a very nice tool. I have no idea how i might verify it is working correct so I had a quick look around. One thing that bugged me was if i switch to mV the measurement starts falling. First at -001.0 and after 20 seconds -011.0 and so on. Why is that ? Is it a fault ?

[Kiriakos-GR]

The most basic DMM test, are to cross the leads, and if it display 0000 you are good to go 

[skipsmoto]

Just bought one too. hope it's ok.

[Kiriakos-GR]

The play-up at the mV range ( with the test leads open = no contact between them)  its not a sign of damage.

[RCMR]

I have had a 17B for a couple of months now and it's a great little meter for the price.

Feels like its more expensive brothers but at a budget price.  I'm happy to forgo a bit of resolution and accuracy because it's still good enough for 99% of the work I do but it comes with that Fluke "quality feel" which gives me confidence it'll still be working when I need it most.

[Storeinfinity]

I totally agree on the quality of 17B with its budget price.
It has been the most popular one in Chinese market.
I remember one chinese folk tried to modify 15B into a 17B and he made it.
http://www.ourdev.cn/bbs/bbs_content_all.jsp?bbs_sn=1432077
this is the bbs page of the whole procedure it takes, please google translate it and if anything puzzles you i would love to revise some translations when needed.
BTW 17b has been the star best seller at storeinfinity. Just in case some one might be interested in it, it costs $70 now.
Slightly higher in ebay.
Enjoy

[Uncle Vernon]

Just in case some one might be interested in it, it costs $70 now.
Slightly higher in ebay.
Enjoy

Hi Storeinfinity

the Fluke $17B is listed as $70US yet is $75.33AU. I am curious why the higher price for Australia given $AU is currently above parity with $US.

Australia has a free trade agreement with China.
Australia is in the same or a closer time zone to China.
Freight is charged separately so should be of no consequence to item pricing.
These are retail purchases to diverse location so economies of scale discounts to distributors should not apply.
Transaction with Australia should have a comparatively low occurrence of fraud and default.

Why the proportionally higher prices for Australia? While $5.33 isn't exactly a game breaker a similar margin on a variety of purchases amounts to a lot of cash. This is a common theme in pricing and not restricted to Storeinfinity.

What factors are bring about these price discrepancies?

[Kiriakos-GR]

I remember one chinese folk tried to modify 15B into a 17B and he made it.
http://www.ourdev.cn/bbs/bbs_content_all.jsp?bbs_sn=1432077
this is the bbs page of the whole procedure it takes, please google translate it and if anything puzzles you i would love to revise some translations when needed.

Great link !!  Lots of imagination !!
I bet that the one who had stick those LED's , connected them with the Buzzer ? 
Did he ?

[amspire]

Hi Storeinfinity

the Fluke $17B is listed as $70US yet is $75.33AU. I am curious why the higher price for Australia given $AU is currently above parity with $US.

Australia has a free trade agreement with China.
Australia is in the same or a closer time zone to China.
Freight is charged separately so should be of no consequence to item pricing.
These are retail purchases to diverse location so economies of scale discounts to distributors should not apply.
Transaction with Australia should have a comparatively low occurrence of fraud and default.

Why the proportionally higher prices for Australia? While $5.33 isn't exactly a game breaker a similar margin on a variety of purchases amounts to a lot of cash. This is a common theme in pricing and not restricted to Storeinfinity.

What factors are bring about these price discrepancies?

Where did you get the $75.33 from? Isn't the price US$70 which is A$67.48, and if you buy with, say Paypal, then you pay the standard Paypal currency conversion rates?

Anyway, you can get is cheaper once you include postage.  Shipped to Australia, it is US$88.

Here is the same thing for US$86.29 shipped to Australia.

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/479107561-FLUKE-17B-F17B-Digital-Multimeter-Meter-NEW-wholesalers.html

Richard.

[Uncle Vernon]

Where did you get the $75.33 from? Isn't the price US$70 which is A$67.48, and if you buy with, say Paypal, then you pay the standard Paypal currency conversion rates?

Try selecting $AU on the website which is what you are going to get charged paying in $AU and magically "$7.85AU of not being American" tax is deducted!

Anyway, you can get is cheaper once you include postage.  Shipped to Australia, it is US$88.

Here is the same thing for US$86.29 shipped to Australia.

As you should given the logistics and relative transport distances. But unless you are paying from the US you are going to get taxed.

[amspire]

I what you mean. So pay in US dollars and you get the US price. It doesn't matter what country you pay from. They just don't like Aussie dollars.

Or get it from the other seller cheaper.

Richard