Fluke28 II True-RMS Rugged IP 67 Industrial Digital Multimeter

Excellent product well made.

I use multimeters all day everyday for work strictly out and about in the real world and weather. Fluke products have always worked great and lasted through the worst rain, dust and mud. My last Fluke product lasted me about 10 years and was in used condition when I got it. Happy with every Fluke product I've ever used. Highly recommended.

No comparison, is the best of the best from the best, get the magnet it helps, read the manual if need to know the how to, I use it for heavy duty machinery diagnosis, and is so fast that catches every signal. Like every tool if you know how to use it it will pay off quickly and start to generate income, mine payed off in 2 days. I saw negative reviews like screen too small or too heavy but must understand that the toy is intended for aggressive use harsh environments water Blizzard etc. If you're in a controlled environment better get something less protected but more specialized.

I'd never given multimeters much thought until recently - I figured they were all essentially the same, and the more expensive ones were just intended for more frequent use than the $15-$50 models.Was I ever wrong.As I started working more with electronics projects I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with the $15 meter I had, and I often questioned how accurate it really was. My attempts to calibrate a multimeter kit project I was working on required something better than my $15 meter could provide, and after spending some weeks struggling with getting things right I stumbled across EEVBlog and suddenly started finding out what made a meter "good" and why.Accuracy and precision are only part of it. Most critical, in my mind, was safety. Most of the inexpensive meters simply aren't safe when it comes to dealing with high current, especially AC/main/wall current. The Fluke is not only accurate and precise, it's safe for working on AC/wall current. Should it ever eat a spike, I can trust it to absorb the damage safely, without blowing up in my hand or face, and without it bursting into flames. All of which can and very probably will happen with the $15-$50 models.I was initially leaning toward the somewhat less expensive 87-V model, which is functionally almost identical to the 28-II. However, after consideration and seeing the type of abuse and punishment the 28-II was capable of shrugging off, I decided to spend a little more to pick up this ruggedized model. By all accounts it should remain useful for 15 or 20 years, and with the 28-II I'll never have to worry about accidentally dropping it, or taking it outside under any conditions I'm likely to encounter.Not only is it good for rugged jobs, after just a few days of indoor use on my lab table I consider it money well spent. It made quick work of the calibration troubles I'd been having with the cheap meter, allowing me to breeze through 3 calibrations in the span of an hour, when previously 1 had taken a few days and was never completed to my satisfaction. The instant continuity tone on the 28-II was extremely valuable on my most recent project, where several locations on a project PCB had become bridged/shorted. The Fluke made quick work of sorting out which traces were shorted where, and I don't even want to think of the nightmare it would have been with the intermittent and delayed continuity response of my old $15 meter.Throw in the 28-II's nice backlight and 800 hour battery life (on 3 AAs) and I'm hard pressed to find anything better at this price. For a general purpose, takes anything you throw at it multimeter, it's hard to beat.

Fluke..... As always, quality!