{"id":8112,"date":"2006-03-18T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/dmms\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:17","slug":"dmms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/dmms\/","title":{"rendered":"DMMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1620-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On the left is my brand new Fluke 179 which just showed up today (thanks, Chad!). In the middle is the Radio Shack DMM I had received from my parents a number of years ago as a gift. My first DMM, if you could say that&#8230; On the right is a crappy &#8216;Cen-Tech&#8217; brand DMM which I purchased from Harbor Freight solely to compare a batch of transistors.<\/p>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t expect the Harbor Freight meter to be even remotely accurate (after all, it cost $3 or $4), when hooking all three DMMs to the same power supply, it is surprisingly close to the Fluke. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say the Fluke wasn&#8217;t worth it, as it is amazingly responsive, easy to use, and does all sorts of things well&#8230; And being properly calibrated and all, I can trust its results. I&#8217;m just amazed that the general piece-of-crap from HF was more accurate than the one I&#8217;ve been using for years. I guess I should have replaced it sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the left is my brand new Fluke 179 which just showed up today (thanks, Chad!). In the middle is the Radio Shack DMM I had received from my parents a number of years ago as a gift. My first DMM, if you could say that&#8230; On the right is a crappy &#8216;Cen-Tech&#8217; brand DMM\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13517,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}