Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.
Having just fixed a 25+ year old Fluke 8060A due to 5 out of 10 electrolytic capacitors leaking its electrolyte, I hope those two electrolytic caps don't leak on you anytime soon. In Spawn's pictures, it looks like they have been replaced or removed.
Glad I had something worth posting for a change (not the same exact thing others have done).
Good catch on the electrolytics. No sign of leakage yet, and hopefully they won't any time soon. But I'll certainly have to keep an eye on them when I check the battery.
Thanks a lot for the teardown! It does indeed look quite different from the latest Brymen models. Still seems like super good value for money for the price you paid though!
At what I paid, definitely.
I'm not so sure at full price though, depending on location. Not so much in the US for example, as by the time better leads and a data kit are added, the price comes in around what an Agilent U1252B goes for (BM869/Greenlee DM-560A + leads + data kit vs. U1252B when it includes the BT adapter for free, which they seem to do fairly regularly it seems).
I can see what we talk about nanofrog, it is actually weird they keep same housing and try to improve over the years, mostly these kind manufacturers change the shape of the meter over the years, 10 years difference taught them something and they improved on the newer models it seems, I see some things un unpopulated on your main PCB which are filled on mine like the ones under the shield on my PCB. It is like Fluke 80 series improving over the years but changes are not much as this one.
You got yourself hell of a meter for that price, it is just great
Likely cheaper and faster to concentrate on the PCB alone, as they don't have to create new injection molds.
As per the cost, definitely for what I paid.
I have an Amp Probe AM140 and the inside looks very similar. This leads me to believe that it is also a Brymen as well.
Can't recall the innards of the AM140, but as Brymen appears to be primarily an ODM, and how similar the features (and identical soft key layout is), it's likely IMHO.
Yes, It has been discussed before, the meters there are older models, like the Extech there is MM570 and mine is MM570A, I would love to see the difference in those two to be honest.
And there is also GreenLee with same guts too, so in total 4 brands are using same multimeter in their own colors.
See here
Which Greenlee?
The DM-560A is the newer model (same as the BM869A), not the older BM859CFa (big brother of the BM857A I have).