If you're working with high voltages or massively different potentials, Fluke actually design the boards and isolation circuitry properly. You're not going to get electrocuted by a Fluke meter.
It doesn't even take a high voltage, just a bad earth to kill you. Cheap multimeters and even mid range ones tend to ignore this fact in favour of cost. Explosion resistance. If you stick your cheap multimeter in resistance mode and whack ot across a v 30A supply its going to blow your hand off.
No joke. Fluke - dead meter by design or absolutely nothing and it still carries on working. I have a Fluke 87 that cost me a small fortune.
It works fine today, still handles calibration perfectly and is pin sharp and accurate. Other vendors fall to bits, drop out of calibration ranges and pack in completely. I know because I have three meters at any time and the only ones that survive are flukes.
Warranty void if purchased from a non-authorized distribution partner. Since there is no authorized distributer in the USA, you can't purchase one here and expect to get a warranty. But I don't expect to need warranty service, and since it's so cheap, I'm prepared to replace it if required. I bought mine from one of the many on-line sources.
I also have a Fluke , and an old Fluke I've used a borrowed Fluke I've got a few non-Fluke meters, as well. This Fluke has very few features, but it does them very well. Its input protection appears to be top notch.
It has no current measurement capability whatsoever, which has the side effect of meaning its input is always high impedance, and there is no fuse required or present. It is always auto ranging, with no manual ranging override. It is tiny and lightweight compared to any other Fluke I have seen. There is no display backlight, and no stand to prop it up. It seems to me that Fluke made the business decision that they didn't want this meter competing at the low end of the US market, so they don't import it here.
But we can get it through unauthorized channels. That's not illegal; it's just not supported by the manufacturer, so no warranty is provided. I still think it's a good meter for those who can live within its very basic capabilities.
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Reaction score If Fluke are outsourcing the manufacture of their test equipment to China, how long before they become cheap knock offs? No disrespect to Chinese industries, I'm sure that many are making good, reliable products but there is a history of Chinese third party knock offs.
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