Spent $150 on a used Fluke multimeter... best decision I made all year

I was using those $20 multimeters from Amazon for years and they kept giving me weird readings on a motherboard repair last month. One gave me a false voltage reading that almost fried a customer's board. Picked up a used Fluke 87V off eBay for $150 and the difference is night and day. The readings are stable and accurate, and it actually helped me diagnose a bad capacitor on a Dell Optiplex in like 5 minutes. Anyone else finally drop real cash on a tool that just makes the job easier?

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kaih366d ago

Ha, my cheap meter ghosted me mid reading once lmao.

tara7936d ago

Ghosted me mid reading" hits different when your toddler decides to unplug the whole thing just as you're about to get a proper reading. At least your meter had the decency to do it by itself.

grace_campbell5d ago

I read somewhere that a Fluke 87V can pick up a bad capacitor just by listening to the sound it makes. @tara793 mentioned getting ghosted mid reading and that cheap meter stuff is exactly why I switched. Those cheap meters can read fine one second then lie to you the next. Once you use a meter that doesn't drift around or give fake readings it's hard to go back.