Review: Mid Range / Priced Multimeter Shootout / Buyers Guide

[MJLorton]

Yes...good idea...the container will hopefully be here Friday...so with any luck I should have the rest of my kit unpacked next week some time...

I'm sure a little "continental drift" won't have affected it....

[ultrafastcars]

Thanks for writing this review, it was incredibly helpful. I'm glad I didnt buy into the hype and end up with a overpriced 17B fluke.

[MJLorton]

Thanks for the post, always good to know the shared and growing knowledge here helps folks.

Cheers,
Martin.

[Paul Collins M0BSW]

In the Uni-t UT61E part 4 episode, Martin said he would test the UT61E to see if the calibration holds or not (i.e drift).

Initial readings were taken Nov 9, 2012, calibrated on Nov 20 and shootout was done Mar 31, 2013.

From his videos.

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Initial Calibrated Shootout
0.2496 0.2499 0.2496
1.4990 1.5005 1.4992
4.995 5.000 4.995
7.743 7.751 7.744
9.942 9.953 9.943

Now I realize the temperature might be different during all the periods, but it looks like the UT61E has drifted back to almost its original values as tested on Nov 9 (4 months ago).

In addition, a sample size of 1 isn't exactly scientific.

Thanks for that info! That was crossing my mind during the review and I always wondered about temperature playing a part. But as I recall, someone else that has one said they seemed to drift. I will keep an eye on that and perhaps do some follow-up as it might be relevant to some folks.

Maybe you just got to live with it