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June 5th 04, 05:43 PM

On 05 Jun 2004 13:50:36 GMT, (Fred McKenzie) wrote:

I am considering purchasing a Fluke meter to do some
alignments & repairs here.
Can anyone reccomend a Fluke meter model or anothere brand model?

Clint-

I like the idea of having a couple of those cheap meters. I keep one in my
brief case and one I take with me on trips.

For the shop, I wanted something I could depend on, so back in about 1980 I
purchased a Fluke 8020A handheld digital multimeter. Soon after that the
display darkened. I purchased an upgraded display, installed it myself, and
have had no other problems since then.

strange... believe I bought the 8020B already in 1980, but after a
while I had to put some paper under the pcb to push the contact harder
against the display to obtain proper reading. Still have some 8020B's
but they usually don't work properly too often.

One strange fault occurred when I tried to measure the booster voltage
in a tv set, the varistor for input protection blow, and I had to look
for some resistor-looking type. The resistance measurement wouldn't go
higher than 100-150k until the varistor was replaced

73
Jan-Martin
LA8AK