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Brymen has current clamps :grin:

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I was looking at those. :grin:

Nice to meet another Brymen fan. :grin:

After all, they design their own multimeter chipsets and those are used by several high quality brands.

There are no good options to replace the UT210E with it’s 1mA DC resolution, not even anotherUT210E. So I’ll have to settle for one with a 10mA resolution.

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@ODaily, can I ask you to check the calibration of my opinion about Mitutoyo calipers? :wink:

I know that only micrometers are good enough for you buy still.

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Hell yeah. Honestly not sure why they aren’t more popular

I’d trust Brymen to be more accurate than the UT210E, especially at the lower end

I’m not going to directly disagree with this, but unless you’re doing something totally ridiculous, any decent caliper will be more than sufficient. I’ve used the iGaging personally and exclusively at work and never had any issue with the reading.

Actually
BM257 - UT210E
08.42mA - 0.009A
17.89mA - 0.019A
48.86mA - 0.049A
097.6mA - 0.097A
497.8mA - 0.494A
1.990A - 1.985A
4.996A - 04.97A

I’m impressed, that’s pretty decent. The OP did state that you’d need to zero the UT210E before pretty much each reading, and that moving it in the air would cause a change of a few mA

That’s my brother (I’m the installer brother)

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I checked my notes. It’s an xG3v1

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Man I’d love to meet Sam Reich, seems like a cool guy. Dropout is great

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Absolutely, the calipers don’t matter.

I’ve seen machining Gods who could measure tenths of a thousandths with 2 twigs and a small rock by squinting at them. I’ve seen utter fools user precision tools as a hammer (seriously :scream:)

For a person of low skill, quality matters. For a person of quality, it just takes a little extra focus. Idiots need not apply, as they cannot be helped.

But yeah, I got some skill, and I still want good tools, cause quality x skill makes shit look deceptively cool and easy. :wink:

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Guess I was unlucky with the iGaging then. Mine tended to add random errors that sometimes were obvious, sometimes were not, and sometimes were full on seizures.

Eventually my patience ran out. A tool that randomly goes out of spec but is accurate most of the time is a massive time and material waster.

I’d rather use a cheap set of vernier calipers than the particular iGaging ones that I had. Sure, the grinder grit can make it harder to feel things and you have to be careful not to apply too much force.

Mines had to be a particularly bad example.

I set my 3D printer probe Z offset by placing a light behind the nozzle and squinting. And I get way more predictable results than with a sheet of paper. But that machine lacks rigidity in a way unimaginable to most machinists so anything along the lines of a feeler gauge is going to be less reliable.

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True, it also depends on what you’re doing. I find that combining quality and skill saves a lot of time and effort. And it also helps improve yields.

They can perform way better than the stated accuracy if you are careful, zero them, and don’t move them or anything ferromagnetic while measuring. And degausing the clamp from time to time can help lot depending on the circumstances. I know that some people have managed to calibrate those to make them less of a compass, edited the eeprom values to get better resolution, added oscilloscope outputs, etc…

I still wouldn’t trust them as much as a better instrument, but they are good enough for a lot of things.

I’m looking for a replacement because the plastic is starting to fall apart. And those Brymen ones are good enough for me TBH.

I have a 789 in box seeing daily use, and a 179 in my go bag, but ive been looking at the 101 and 107 for the daypack …

I like the 179, but its big …

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The 101 is cheap enough to be an impulse buy TBH. And the 107 isn’t that bad on the price side of things either.

Although the rather average accuracy of 0.5%+3 and lack of true RMS and lack of a uA range makes them better suited for working with the mains than for electronics use.

I’m not the target audience for those models, but they do look nice and from my limited browsing, they’re close to the competition when it comes to price. And they’re yellow!

Although that’s neither here not there, it all depends on what you’re doing and what gives you enough measurement confidence to not second guess yourself at work. But I should probably shave the metrology grade gray beard… I’m not even that old, but thinking about PPMs and significant digits will make your beard go gray.

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Oh look it’s an apex flex but instead of getting an incision you get to sell your sou- I mean your biometric data for tracking purposes.

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I’m pretty sure that Amazon implemented this at WholeFoods a while back…

As if giving your data to Amazon wasn’t uncomfortable enough already… I definitely don’t want the CCP to have any scans of any part of my body.

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Finally, they’ve done it

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I want your best :twss: jokes

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Someone finally got the Xproxmark3

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ā€œJust the tip!?
I promiseā€

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ā€œSorry, its normally harder than thisā€

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ā€œAxels bigger prick than usualā€

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