Brand and cost aside, the insides of most of these moderno meters is getting way too small for comfort
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With a combo of aging, temperature extremes and -guaranteed to happen- drops on concrete or tiles, causing nano cracks on the brittle lead free bs soldering,
they will become unreliable, intermittent and pretty much unfixable.
I've seen it already, a 'brand name withheld' meter, new in the box, with half the functions DOA or way out of spec.
The replacement sent was spot on perfect, and highly possible from the same batch run.
Even with the working replacement as a reference, it's too much of an unpaid challenge or pride bs to fix the knackered one, and then stuff about calibrating it,
assuming one even gets that far without schematics, microscope, and patience
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The exiled de-crustified AVOmeter has been seeing some use lately,
seen in a window refection displaying the vintage Finger at the modern smart meters when I'm not looking
I don't know how many owners had it before me, nor how it survived years of collegetard abuse before them,
but it's in perfect spec decades later on all the ranges, including the 3kv AC and DC hookup
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