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Some of Radio Shacks meters are Flukes. Drew Glasbrenner USF Geology Program aglasbr1@br*.ac*.us*.ed* On Tue, 18 May 1999, Patricia Disler wrote: > You roasted three Radio Shack meters. Then blew the fuse in the Fluke > twice. Id say its user error rather than all R/S meters are bad. > I have a couple R/S VOM's and they work nearly as well as my Fluke 77 or > Fluke 2043. Admittedly R/S VOM's are not as accurate when testing some > logic circuits but do rather well taking basic voltage and amperage > measurments. > I'd suggest which ever VOM a person selects, that an shunt be used for > amperage measurment that could potentialy exceed the design parameters of a > given meter. > > At 08:51 AM 5/17/99 +0000, Samy Elashmawy wrote: > >Fluke make some real nice ones , especialy the highr end ones. > > > >I tried three radio shack ones over a three day perios , each one toasted > >out. To my amazment they kept exchanging them , third time round I said I > >want a refund , they hgave it to mee and I went out and got the fluke. Rock > >solid. Had to change the fuse twice , not the whole meter. > > > >At 07:23 AM 5/17/1999 EDT, KarstDive@ao*.co* wrote: > >>looking for decent volt/amp meter....any suggestions.... > >> > >> > > > > > > > "SILT HAPPENS"JD JEFF DISLER > SAFE CAVING NSS 26000 >
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