Show your Multimeter!

[Professor Fudge]

Here are a bunch of the multimeters I have had throughout my life.


On the left is my first one I got as a kid from my dad. I did some projects with the boy scouts with it. Its a Hung Chang HC-213.
Next is a GB Instruments GDT-11 I got as a teenager to put together an intercom kit and trouble shoot a doorbell with.
The green one is a Greenlee DM-40 home depot special cheapo meter I use to check mains voltage at work. I also use the ohms and continuity on it.

The big yellow one on the end is what I purchased recently for $40 on ebay. Its a BK test bench 389.
I have been using it building a bunch of kits and just starting to really learn about electronics and I like it!

Ok now show me what you got!!

[Simon]

dare we ? you might get upset when you see those lovely flukes, I have the VC99 and the AM220

[Mechatrommer]

Mine Uni-T UT71A, Sunwa DT-890G, Sanwa YX-360TRD (Analog), and other dead DMMs (similar to your GB Instruments GDT-11)

[JohnS_AZ]

*chuckle*

Seriously, I have two Fluke 77's that are probably 20 years old, work great, are still in cal, and I see no need to replace them.
(and yes, that's really one of my meters in the photo)

[Kiriakos-GR]

Personally , after all this gear that I recently own or build , about  multimeters accuracy verification,
I do not throw my hat , if I do not test first the meter .

I am less sentimental ..   

[Professor Fudge]

JohnS_AZ sweet nixie tubes!

[migsantiago]

I have an unbranded one.  

I would like to have a better one... a Fluke would be awesome.

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3148/dsc00508c.jpg

[ddrl46]

Extech EX330

[mikeselectricstuff]

[Professor Fudge]

Hey Mike, whats that blue one in the middle on the bottom? Looks like a big blue clamp?

[EEVblog]

I've had too many to count I think.

[TopherTheME]

My Agilent u1242B

I've had too many to count I think.

No such thing as to many multimeters!

[seanmatthew22]

This is my Mastercraft meter  from Canadian Tire it is auto ranging. Though nothing special it was twenty dollars which i think is pretty value.

[Mechatrommer]

Hey Mike, whats that blue one in the middle on the bottom? Looks like a big blue clamp?

you are definitely right! thats the clamp meter!

[mikeselectricstuff]

Hey Mike, whats that blue one in the middle on the bottom? Looks like a big blue clamp?

Yes - it has a built-in AC/DC current measuring clamp. Very handy for diagnosing car electrical problems. 

BTW the small blue Pantec Zip pen-style unit has to be about 20 yrs old now. As far as I know, nobody makes something this small today  - the nearest I've found so far is the one above it in the pic. 

[jahonen]

Finally gathered them to "family" portrait. Shown in age order, oldest in the left:



Regards,
Janne

[Kiriakos-GR]

And my pile of them ...    

The last picture its not an accuracy test,
its more like, 6 meters of cables or more ,running around the multimeters    

[McPete]

Here are my two, the Fluke 117C and the B&K Precision 2709B, with a Minichamp and Wiha #0 Phillips for size comparison;

[Kiriakos-GR]

with a Minichamp

You have lost the toothpick .   

[nyo]

Hoping to get a fluke soon...

[allanw]

BTW the small blue Pantec Zip pen-style unit has to be about 20 yrs old now. As far as I know, nobody makes something this small today  - the nearest I've found so far is the one above it in the pic. 

How about this? http://www.circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/8476

[PetrosA]

BTW the small blue Pantec Zip pen-style unit has to be about 20 yrs old now. As far as I know, nobody makes something this small today  - the nearest I've found so far is the one above it in the pic. 

How about this? http://www.circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/8476

Or this:

http://westsidedelivers.com/item.asp?PID=7540

or these:

http://extech.com/instruments/product.asp?catid=31&prodid=117
http://extech.com/instruments/product.asp?catid=31&prodid=118

or this:
http://www.justhandhelds.com/store/Hongda_DT3211_Pen_Style_%20multimeter.html?__utma=1.248939648.1283818441.1283818441.1283818441.1&__utmb=1.2.10.1283818441&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1283818441.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=pen%20multimeter&__utmv=-&__utmk=255167368

[Kiriakos-GR]

We have at my work, this  3246 -- HIOKI PENCIL HITESTER  (Japan) ,  actually its on our tool box (  industrial electricians) .

I like it allot ,  but I would never get one for my self, I dislike tiny things ..  

[NiHaoMike]

That's a Mastech MS8226T I got for college and my dad's old Fluke 8021B. They are the only meters I have that measure properly in the presence of strong harmonics. In the picture, they are being used to measure the impedance of a transformer out of an old UPS, which has an AC impedance of 814 ohms at 100Hz. (I'm using my PC as a DDS function generator, and my best friend Tiffany Yep, a digital communications engineer/model, says hi...)

[Mechatrommer]

@NiHaoMike: you should learn more on photography, coz you have a very confusing subject matter in your picture. me eyes tend to linger more toward the wallpaper. i think i'm going to be able to work really "hard" all day and night long if that wallpaper is infront of me everytime
and i dont see she's pronouncing "hi". i heard "Cheese!?"....anyone?