I see many people excited but this meter has the crappiest AC bandwidth , no bargraph , so beside beeing cheap what is the point buying it for electronics ? And I doubt any professional electrician would trust a company like this for his life ...
At this price the quality can't be good , I'm sorry but good things don't come free ... I don't want to be evil but first check if those fuses are't just chinese fakes . They know by now how much people love big fuses
To be fair, I don't trust Uni-T either, but the actual physical construction and the PCB are made to a higher standard than a lot of their previous models. I was just curious as to what the meter feels like so I bought it to check it out. If you wanna depend your life on it? That'd be crazy, and I wouldn't do that either, but for someone who's looking for a cheaper alternative with relatively good quality (compared to those absolute cheapies), it does feel a lot better in the hand, and the measurements are consistent, screen is big and fonts are bold, not to mention the great backlight feature and the beeping diode mode.
I see nothing wrong with these cheaper alternatives. They have a place in the market, and I see no prob Uni-T actually try to improve the quality of their cheapies.
EDIT:
Again, is 500Hz bandwidth too different from 800Hz? Is a crappy bargraph worth having? Name me a few meters that have decent bargraph in the $60-$70 range that has similar fit and finish and construction? The UT61E seems to be a lot better in this regard, but it was not built in the same way. Nothing is free I guess as you said.
What I'm really trying to say is, nothing is free. You get something, you lose something. I don't believe you'd be able to get a UT61E successor in this kind of build quality for a similar price. Well that hasn't happened yet, so we'll see.