Well, some interesting reading, going back to the past to see what these things cost new.
Looks like the metal body 4503 is the later version, probably to do with the EMC changes at the start of 1996. Seems to be the same for the 1906, and of course mine is badged TTi, so is later still.
One fascinating (to me) little nugget, is that the Fluke 8060A and AVO 8 were still sold up to at least 1998, and were more expensive than a Fluke 87 III ![Shocked :o](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)
Also looking at the prices of some of my other gear makes me glad I wasn't trying to build a workshop collection back then, I would have needed to be a lottery winner, especially regarding scopes and scopemeters ![Scared :scared:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/scared.gif)
Well, don't forget that for years, in the UK at least, the Avo 8 was considered to be the bench mark of meters and service charts / manuals often used to cite it as the meter to be used when measuring voltages on a piece of equipment, or at the very least, they would state that a meter of 20,000opv be used, so I'm not at all surprised that it was still on sale or that it was more expensive than some newer boys on the block, even if they were called Fluke
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I know what you mean about the prices back in the day, all I could do was dream of owning such items of TE and its only in the last few years that I have been able to start gathering some decent equipment around me, I now have two Avo 8's.
Well she is back in operation and all seems to be working fine apart from the Auto Ranging. still got to look at the advanced functions like logging etc. Not sure if the remote part works, never had the need to use any remotes so far so not bothered.
Here its reading a voltage of according to my Fluke 8840A 5.5032V and it reads 5.426V so a calibration will be done once the auto ranging is sorted.
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