The big step in my opinion would be to make a firmware capable of "normal" autorange hysteresis in all modes - volts , amps , resistance and so on.
Every multimeter has the advertised number of counts 4000 , 6000 , 50000 all the time and switches up and down above this value , lets say at 4400-4100 , 6600-6300 , 55000-52000 ...
According to your post, which is presented as an absolute statement of fact, EVERY multimeter does this in EVERY function and EVERY range. If that is true, it would be easy enough to just run DCV for example and sweep it around the first switch point. There would be no need to check every switch point and every function, correct?
If the above is correct, I have a few meters that have survived that I could check easy enough. Then again, you already KNOW the outcome. So really, there's no point in checking, right?
Hmm , almost all , if not all , multimeters with the microcontroller imbedded with the measurement chipset , old and new , even the cheapest chinese ones .
Sorry missed this one. So it's not for certain EVERY meter as you first state. It's all or almost all.
Not being the king of person that would ever listen to what someone has to post on the WWW about meters, I decided to run a few in the DCV mode at the first switch point. I ran them a few times.
Gossen, M248B, 300K count, 3.07, 2.89 Not off to a real good start for your Almost all, Every statements...
Fluke, 189, 50K, 5.5, 4.89 2 for 2
Brymen, BM869s, 50K, 5.25, 4.60 Well my favorite meter is at least in with a good group....
Summit, TPI 194II, 50K, 4.99, 4.03 Didn't even make it to 5.0...
UNI-T, UT181A, 60K, 5.9, 5.6 Again, it didn't make it to 6.0
Brymen, BM839, 20K, 1.93, 1.84 I am seeing a trend...
Fluke, 87V HR, 20K, 1.99, 1.69 Yes, there is a trend..
CEM, DT9939, 40K, 4.04, 3.90 Full disclosure, I actually ran my Extech EX540. It's just a rebrand of that meter
Well I put in some effort to try and help your case but it seems in doing so, I discovered like so often on the internet, you havn't a clue.
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Mastech, MS8229, 4K, 4.01, 3.60 This meter has some really interesting features.
Kasuntest, ZT102, 6K, 6.19, 5.74
Fluke, 107, 6K, 5.99, 5.40
AMPROBE, AM530, 4K, 4.028, 3.60
So are you clueless as I think you are, or am I missing the point of your rants? Feel free to explain your side. All I have is data.
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OWON, B41T+, 22K, 2.257, 2.02
UNI-T, UT61E, 22K, 2.25, 1.97
Surely you are going to show what we are doing wrong?