Also the pictures of the discontinued UT61E that Fungus posted are from another EEVblog forum member Nisei, who duly noted (as can be seen on the PCB silk screen) that the two UT61E DMMs that he owns are different variants of the UT61E - the model on the left is a UT61E-GS and indeed it has better input protection and larger fuses.
Show me a photo of a Uni-T meter, a manual, or a website link that actually has a meter labelled "UT61E-GS".
Sorry, just noticed this and feel like I have to step in to clarify the picture I've posted (even if it's been ages ago) which is being re-used in this thread.
Sucks when you don't get notified when people repost stuff but that's inevitable.
I have no time to read all the posts following that post but here's what was going on:
Reichelt (a German distributor) wanted to sell this meter in Europe but they knew the ratings were bogus so they asked Uni-T to alter some things and had it recertified.
Hence the input protection being beefed up and the CAT ratings being lowered.
Only then could it get a German GS rating.
I believe it was a one-off order of umpteen thousand and when they were sold that was it (no idea how many) because even when the regular 61E was in production they were already sold out.
I still haven't blown it up