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Title: Not a true RMS meter
Review: I was teaching a class for electricians and decided to do some research on a good simple meter to reccomend to the atendees. I have used Fluke meters for most of my career and have foud them to be of excelent design and construction. The description of this meter, it's size and features made it sound ideal.It was not until we were working on a transformer and checking the votages that I realized that this was an "Averaging" meter as opposed to a true RMS meter. The readings from this meter were off by up to 18 Volts when measuing a 208V service as compared to several other true RMS meters being used. A 18 Volt discrepancy at 208V is well outside the stated accuracy of 1.8%.I still believe that Fluke makes some of the best measuring and testing equipment in the world. I just think that they should make it clearer in their advertising that this is an Averaging meter and AC voltages read will be significantly different from the true voltage.
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