T4D 26 - Amprobe AM160

[Antraciet]

Martin, thanks for the comment.  Two of my favorite channels are yours and Dave's.  I do hope to make more videos and hopeful make a video when I finish the el-load.

John

I agree with you. Martin has his place on Youtube and the internet, his channel will become more and more popular. Dave is a great guy, but too high for me, too complicated sometimes.
And you have your place too, do your own thing, have fun, and i like your vids too BTW. So thumbs up for you too.

[Kiriakos GR]

Kiriakos GR,  I purchased both the meter and software/hardware kit through Amazon.  The meter was $161.32 USD and the data logging kit was around $61.00.

The price looks very reasonable for both, which makes the specific Amprobe model one well balanced product.
Lots of features with acceptable pricing = Good deal. 

[MJLorton]

It doesn't look like there are too many original manufacturers of the 500,000 count handheld multimeters because Amprobe AM160 = Brymen BM859 = Extech MM570A = Greenlee DM860.

Need proof?  See for yourself.  The Brymen BM857 (500,000 count) was on ebay for $89 just a while ago (auction ended - 1 sold out of 3). 

From (pics taken below)

http://brymen.com/product-html/cata850a/BM850a_Catalog.pdf

http://content.amprobe.com/manuals/AM140160_umeng0000.pdf

http://www.extech.com/instruments/resources/manuals/MM560A-MM570A_UM.pdf

http://www.wattmaster.com.au/downloads/P2042_1.pdf

What is surprising is that the company that owns Fluke also owns Amprobe which compete against Extech and Greenlee.

Note 3 out of the 4 pictures all show 5.00059 DC V.  In addition, 500,000 count mode is 1.25 per second update.  In 50,000 count mode, it is 5 times per second.

Martin, if I were you, I would save your money and not buy the Amprobe AM160.  I don't know what you are going to learn since it is essentially the same as your Brymen TBM867.  If the Amprobe AM160 were Amprobe in house technology, then that would be different.

I was looking for this post before I did the review and could not find it!!! Thanks again...I'll pick up on this in the calibration video.

Cheers.

[Mr Eastwood]

Hi,  does anyone know what chipset the AM160-A is using?   In the video review I saw the big "BTC" package - it looked like that might have been the uC for the DMM and the analogue front-end chip was under the metal shield?

[iloveelectronics]

Hi,  does anyone know what chipset the AM160-A is using?   In the video review I saw the big "BTC" package - it looked like that might have been the uC for the DMM and the analogue front-end chip was under the metal shield?

I don't have the AM160-A but I believe most, if not all, Brymen manufactured meters use their own BTC (Brymen Technologies Corp) branded chipsets.