EEVblog #341 - Mailbag

Mailbag Monday
Fluke 17B Multimeter unboxing
PIC Tutorial board
IMPLA 3D Printable material
Analog Multimeter Teardown

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[leeYT]

I learned assembly, C, and working with microcontrollers, all for the first time using gooligum's tutorials.
Great stuff for beginners!!!

Keep being awesome, Dave!

[douro]

Fluke does sell the 17B in the US with a one year warranty. The similar 15B is also sold by Sears as the Craftsman 81437.

[douro]

"Impact modified" means that a a chemical modifier was added to the plastic during production to make it more impact resistant.

[scottbrynen]

Dave, while you bash the $5 multimeter, 20 years ago I had one of these that I used all the time, it was my cheapo one that lived in my toolbox.  Chopped off the probe wires and soldered the wires straight in, and replaced the probes with two mini croc clips.  Still have it sitting in my garage and it still worls.  Super useful to keep in the car these days.

[Albinorama]

I Have that Fluke!!! I bought it from that website 3 years ago, works fine.

[jamesbrg]

Nice tip of the hat to Ferris Bueller...I especially liked the ending...

[spagamoto]

Haha I was watching this late at work waiting for some stuff to finish compiling. It finished pretty much just as Dave told me to go home :)

[adaptine]

I swear, mailbag monday is like christmas, every f***ing time.

[FrankenPC]

Mesa pronounced may-sah. Being the precise engineer you are, I figured you would like that micro-adjustment :D

[douro]

All of the newer Asian market 17Bs are selling now with the TL175 leads.

[Tigrou]

I had exact same multimeter as the one you received. I payed something like 5EUR in a DIY store in Belgium (i needed one in hurry and do no want to spent lot of money). I found some others very similar to that one in other stores, but with other brand and slightly different colors printed on it (like green red white instead of red blue white). I guess they all come from same Chinese company, it is just variations. I give it to my father some weeks after and he toasted it (probably because he setup it incorrectly). Since then I paid him another cheap digital one. No problems so far :)

[doodh_jalebi]

Dave, when you removed the yellow rubber casing of the fluke, it looked like you shaved its head!!!

[dealio]

I love the ending GOOD JOB DAVE.Keep it up

[toxanbi]

19:30 — you probably should keep it horizontally (laying on a table) for proper zero-calibration.

[knifter]

Cant wait until you open up the 17B. Compare that to the 87! Apparently there is fluke and there is Fluke..

[ruadeil_zabelin]

You wouldn't really need to reflow the breadboard, it would be much easier to have a breadboard with pins sticking out on the bottom, then you can just use a standard pin header component on your board to solder the breadboard on. I guess that would be reasonably easy to mod, just melt the plastic on the bottom of it.

[thewii]

Something tells me that if Mike got his hands on one of those he'd test the creepage distance...and then blow up the meter with the destruct-o-tron

[CH_Pechiar]

The fact is that I did measure 380 VAC with that shit multimetre. It saved my day. i needed just to make sure if the 3 phases were more or less equally loaded in order to discard one possible source for a problem of low voltage. it happened that the Neutral feed was faulty

[alynicholls]

i got a box of 50 of these badged silverline, i only paid 12 pounds for them.
i used the meters out of them, i used 15 in some metal detectors i built, and the rest went into bench power supplies i built, they were the cheapest meters i have ever sourced, and they were still more accurate than cheap ammeters and voltmeters lol.

[jan.tichavsky]

There are countless Fluke look alikes but they're at least priced accordingly, maybe they even have better probes!