• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Product Feature packed, accurate and safe DMM

Product
slow-poke

slow-poke

Ultra Member
I just received a new DMM as an upgrade to my old Fluke87.

If anyone is looking for a quality, feature packed DMM this one might be the one for you.

Brymen BM789

This is a UL certified CAT IV rated meter that passed the really abusive battery of tests that Joe Smith throws at DMM;s to see where they fail...

I just tested against my lab standards, it's very accurate.

Very reasonably priced compared to say a similar/inferior featured Fluke.

First impressions are I REALLY LIKE IT!

BM789.JPG
 
I checked the specs. Looks like it has basically everything a person would need for a lot of typical applications. The "contactless voltage detector" seems to have become a standard feature on DMMs.

@slow-poke
The test leads in your photo don't look like the ones that came with the DMM. Did it come with leads? If it did are they good quality or will you be upgrading?
 
Elektrishun said:
I checked the specs. Looks like it has basically everything a person would need for a lot of typical applications. The "contactless voltage detector" seems to have become a standard feature on DMMs.

@slow-poke
The test leads in your photo don't look like the ones that came with the DMM. Did it come with leads? If it did are they good quality or will you be upgrading?
Click to expand...
For day to day general use the supplied leads are fine. They are silicone have gold tips and a threaded portion that allows you to thread on the supplied gold banana tips to give you banana to banana nice touch.

They also provide a K type thermocouple also a nice touch. I can see myself using the dual temperature measurement capabilities provided a fair fit.

Back to the probes for electronic circuit probing (once you've used them you never want to use anything else), love them every time I use them probes are the Fluke TL40/TL910 but they cost half as much as the meter above unless you snag a set on eBay;-)

There are inexpensive clones on Ali that are okayish but definitely not quite the same.
 
jcdammeyer said:
They seem to be a reliable supplier. I just received 20 Italtronics boxes shipped from Poland FedEx.
Click to expand...
Yes for electronics from Europe TME is reliable, low cost fast shipping usually two days if you can live with FedEx.

I have read Welectron is another viable option.

I have been avoiding eBay US like the plague since they stopped their hassle free global shipping (I'm assuming because of the tariffs). However eBay UK has hassle free Royal Post to Canada so sometimes that can be a great option and often affordable.
 
@slow-poke
You ever buy any of your electronic test equipment from Transcat.ca?

I purchased my Siglent oscilloscope and function/AWG generator through them. Very competitive pricing. Shipping speed wasn't great but items always arrived without issue.
 
Elektrishun said:
@slow-poke
You ever buy any of your electronic test equipment from Transcat.ca?

I purchased my Siglent oscilloscope and function/AWG generator through them. Very competitive pricing. Shipping speed wasn't great but items always arrived without issue.
Click to expand...
Not recently but IIRC we used them at one of my previous companies for a really fancy oscilloscope.
 
Siglent is an interesting company. I have one of their spectrum analyzers.

When HP->Agilent->Keysight decided to no longer sell or support their products to individuals they really opened the door for Siglent.

Keysight is unrecognizable from the the old HP, and clearly they are outsourcing many of the new designs and then releasing them without proper or possibly no testing. They released a basic lab power supply a while back, selling for IIRC $1500 that would briefly overshoot the set voltage by 3x when enabled. This is one of the very first tests you do on a power supply and many of the $50 cheapest crap power supplies do that, but you sure wouldn't expect it from a $1500 Keysight. I'm pretty sure they had a recall.

Love their old stuff, would not touch their new equipment.

One of their popular new DMMs failed miserably the Joe Smith tests
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top