The 27 arrived.
It's pristine, mint, has not popped its
cherry fuse. As BD noted, a small mark on the plastic of the screen (looks like an errant drop of solvent, subsequently left to dry) and that's it. Cosmetically it otherwise looks like it just came out of the factory wrappings. The display is crisp and high contrast, sadly this makes me realise how much the 25's display has declined over the years.
Only checked out on DC so far but
it agrees digit for digit with the 25, except for an occasional ±1 last digit difference on the 3.0V range while running it through the whole 3.0V range.
That is why people buy Fluke handhelds; two meters that have had very different lives, one spent years in a tank under desert conditions (literally), one pampered and apparently hardly, if at all, used, and they still agree down to the last digit.
I can dial up any 4 digit display I want on the resistance range with my Vishay 5 decade resistance box. The DC current range agrees with the 25 and what the readback on my E3616A says. Just boring old Fluke predictability really.
Not bad for £29.99 and £4.95 postage. Perhaps the seller is into charity work for
skinflint impoverished TEA addicts because it came packed in a "
Karl Lagerfeld Kids" shoebox, so they aren't short of a bob or two.