[quote=HKJ]
It is always possible to ask if you want something clarified.
It’s just a matter of learning what different functions does and learning different terms mean like burden voltage. shunts.
Are these DMM good for the flashlight hobby and are these meter made in the U.S. for the Asian market?
Shunt is often used about a resistor when it is used for current measurement.
Burden voltage is the voltage drop in a DMM when it is used for measuring current. If you are measuring current from a 1.2V battery with a 200mV burden voltage (At the actual current) your load will only see 1V, i.e. the DMM will affect the result.
Yes, but if only used for flashlights you can get something cheaper that is just as good. With the Fluke you also pays for safety when using it at mains voltage.
Probably made in Asia for the Asian market
Thanks for the replies!
What’s your idea of a cheaper DMM that is just as good?
You don’t have to many DMM reviews/test report up yet so I can’t go by that for reference.
The cheap Aneng (AN8008 & AN860B+) looks good, but they do not have the same mechanical quality as Fluke,(that is not a problem on a bench).
I am working on it, I have a couple more ready, they will be published over the next few months.
Nive review, thanks :cowboy_hat_face:
I bought the Fluke 17B+ about over a year ago after AvE´s review.
Mainly, because I had done it all for like 10 years on a 10$ multimeter, so I thought it´s about time…
Has been working well and I like that it is AA-powered and not 9V (which I had to replace to my older MM quite often).
Hey there, OK thanks, hope your doing good :+1: Sorry for late reply, BLF has been down my side for a day or 2 and missed this altogether.
Yep Fluke are certainly not cheap! Case of buy once , cry once……………
I have the little baby 59(just for checking bearing temps…………oh and flashlights when i get chance).
Fluke is very reliable and expensive, but not the only game in town. I have a some of Fluke meters, including 8846A (A very high end DMM) and like them, but recently I have looked more at Keysight, they are also expensive, but not as bad as Fluke and they do also know a lot about making very good test equipment (I do use a lot of other brands).
Just had a quick look at the keysight brand and do look good, Quick look at the U1241C and cost wise seem around Fluke prices here in the UK. Will save for future reference ! Thanks HKJ :+1: my wallet just loves you 
Keysight is not cheap, but you get more for the money than you do with Fluke.
Try comparing functions in the DMM with a similar priced Fluke.
You do also get a usb cable with the meter, Fluke only has that for the most expensive DMM’s and it cost extra.
Good to know HKJ thanks again. The down side would be name snobbery , definitely not a deciding factor but Fluke just sits easier with me when spending higher amounts of money. Maybe a confidence thing, also having to try and explain why i bought a MM called Keysight to everyone who notices would grow old fast. Trying to get work colleagues to understand spending £100’s on a less known brand(to some) makes sense. I am not a Fluke snob for sure, i use the Di-Log in work, but to think of some negatives that can/do happen in the work place.
I have had to take some flashlights home, one of them I got sick of trying to explain a copper cryos bezels advantages and hi cri nichia’s ! It was like a man magnet, shiny copper and they come over asking endless questions with puzzled looks as to “why?” lol Some get it, others dont and go off thinking their 8lm 3xD cell is more useful behind a discoloured,dust filled cracked plastic lens………
I look forward to more MM reviews in the future, i think they make a perfect addition and complement your reviews nicely :+1:
Good to know HKJ thanks again. The down side would be name snobbery , definitely not a deciding factor but Fluke just sits easier with me when spending higher amounts of money. Maybe a confidence thing, also having to try and explain why i bought a MM called Keysight to everyone who notices would grow old fast. Trying to get work colleagues to understand spending £100’s on a less known brand(to some) makes sense. I am not a Fluke snob for sure, i use the Di-Log in work, but to think of some negatives that can/do happen in the work place.
I have had to take some flashlights home, one of them I got sick of trying to explain a copper cryos bezels advantages and hi cri nichia’s ! It was like a man magnet, shiny copper and they come over asking endless questions with puzzled looks as to “why?” lol Some get it, others dont and go off thinking their 8lm 3xD cell is more useful behind a discoloured,dust filled cracked plastic lens……… I gave in after a couple of weeks! Needed some piece and quiet lol
I look forward to more MM reviews in the future, i think they make a perfect addition and complement your reviews nicely :+1:
On my job I use a SouthWire 14070T more than any other I have. At the time I purchased the 14070T it was the top of the line for SouthWire (they have added more features and models now)
It is extremely accurate and tough as nails. It was designed to take a pretty good beating and it does. It is a re-branded meter but for what it cost me I can't find anything about it t complain about.
I do plan to replace it soon with a Fluke 87-5.
Lots of great meters out there now at very good prices. I tend to lean more towards Fluke I suppose because of the service I have always gotten.
One of the most respected brands in test equipment was HP. At some time they started selling computers and found out there was more money in that. The test equipment was moved to the Agilent brand. The Agilent brand also made medico equipment and that was a better business, that meant a new name change for the test equipment division, this time to Keysight.
I do not know if they still sells some of the old HP equipment (With Keysight sticker on), but some test equipment has very long lives.
Fluke may be big and well known in DMM’s, Keysight is big and well known in lots of test equipment.
My impression is also that Fluke is focusing more on electrician DMM, where Keysight makes DMM’s for both electrician and electronic.
Gotta agree with that...
Their products do cater more to technicians and electricians. More portable on the job kind of testing equipment.
I know they manufacture bench-top testing equipment but, I know very little about it.
Thanks for the info Terry and HKJ, some of these names are new to me…………….off to do a little reading up :+1:
Is the Zotek VC17B+ the same as the Aneng AN860B+?
Can’t wait til you post the DMM reviews.
It looks to be.
You need patience, I have other stuff I also need to publish. Today I have a rather interesting meter, but not a DMM 
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hope you will add protection test to this kind of review, but, it may damage the DMM permantly
when worrking with main voltage, i never trust any cheap chinese DMM, who know what will happen
I know, you have alot that comes first. I’ll be patiently waiting.
On Amazon there are 2 Fluke 17B. One regular 17B and one with temperature and frequency. What’s the temperature and frequency is for?
Can the temperature and frequency can be used for flashlight hobby?
17B+ is always with temperature and frequency.
Frequency also have duty cycle, that can be very useful to measure on pwm signals with.
The temperature probe with a DMM is usual very small (See photo in review), i.e. it can be mounted on very small object and measure their temperature, this makes it easy to measure heatsink temperature.