safe to buy old multimeters?

[jean-paul]

Sometimes I do adventurous things like putting 4 meters in series to measure 3000 V and that works fine too.

We work safe or we don't work at all (except when one is tube pilot) 🙂

 

[BATE VANKO]

Many moons ago 🙂, when I was young I bought a Fluke 27/FM - from ''military surplus'' in a very cheap price. Best multimeter for electronics hobbyists, for intermediate DIYers, for advanced DIYers, for green berets from Fort Bragg etc. Something real, "buy it for life" /#1/ !!!!

 

[jpr_pt]

8 years ago I bought a Fluke 45 on ebay. Spent less than $80. It was used, not in mint conditions and for sure uncalibrated
It's impressive how it compares to a new calibrated Keysight 34461A
AC 1kHz square
DC plus AC from a power supply

 

[jean-paul]

That's really good enough.