[BC] Equipment Hall Of Fame

[Brian Urban]

As a lab exercise, one instructor had the class measure and plot the
frequency response of an 260 and a digital meter (fluke, but I don't
remember the model).  The 260 was flat out past 20kHz, the digital meter
response didn't go past 1 kHz.  I would never use a digital meter on
anything but 60 Hz circuits unless I had measured the frequency response.

On 4/9/07 10:59 PM, "Ronald J. Dot'o Sr." <ron.doto at comcast.net> wrote:

> Do any of the digital meters have a db function like the analog meters have?
> I've noticed that many digital meters fall off on AC voltage as the
> frequency goes up where the 260 is pretty flat for audio readings.  The lack
> of a db scale is also inconvenient with the AC voltage readings.
> 
> Ron D
> 
> 
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> 
>> 
>>> ~40 years ago, I used a 260 for a few years. I considered it to be a lousy
>>> meter; a Triplett 630 is far, far, far better
>> 
>> A 260 and a 630 are in the same class, in my book.
>> 
>> In today's money, the Fluke 8020 series is my weapon of choice, although
>> I tend to use my Fluke 10 more often as the 8020 series are now quite
>> expensive.
>> 
>> I reserve the 8020s for those cases where NBS traceability is required,
>> such as UL testing.
>> 
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