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Originally Posted by Scooby074  Fair enough. You can stand by your recommendation. Ill stand by mine. A fried meter doesnt care if your home or work. I wont recommend that anybody on here uses something that i consider a risk, home or work. If you look on craigs or ebay you can get a good meter for a much lower price if cost is a issue. |
How are you frying all these meters.
I've been working on electronics and using vom's over a couple decades... Everything from those original 9$ radioshack analog jobs that were about 2" x 3" with 24awg leads. to good expensive ones.. First meter I had was the old simpson in the leather case that looked like a tape recorder it was so big.
Had an old sperry.. seemed like a copy of a RS model.. have had the good ones too.. simpson and fluke plus still have some lab grade equipment I never use anymore.. have a box full of various build autorangers.. plus a micronta and an extech i use every day.
So far I've never smoked a meter. Closest I've come to having a problem with a meter is poping a fuse on a current check while using a fused scale, vs the unfused side.
I've also accidentally had a probe cross 2 wires and burnt a probe tip off.
I've repaired plenty of meters that others have broke.. 99.9% of them were from measuring the impeadance of a wall socket.. IE.. ohms scale and ac source.
I have yet to have had undamaged insulation on a set of stock leads from a UL listed meter ever present a shock hazard when using them within their limits.. which is usually printed right on the leads.
If a person is using non stock or damaged leads.. that's not a meter fault.. that's a user fault.. they are the kind of people you don't let near toasters when they have forks in their hands.
IMHO.. if a person is damaging a meter in a way that presents a shock hazard.. they are not using it correctly.. in that case.. they can get hurt no matter what tool they have in their hand... A person thet is 'trying' to get hurt will find a way.
soundguy