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   jfeng@my-deja.com to Ralph Mowery   
   Re: Error of % + digits?   
   03 Jul 20 07:53:07   
   
   On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 7:14:22 AM UTC-7, Ralph Mowery wrote:   
   > Just for the fun of it, I did test the 3 'free' Harbor Freight meters on    
   > AC and DC yeaterday.  From 0 to 25 VDC the HF meters were within about    
   > .5 % of the Fluke meter.  On AC up to 130 VAC they were around 3 %.  One    
   > was always low and the other 2 were always high.   
   >    
   > So they are accurate for most anything around the house for most people.   
      
   I checked the first half dozen or so against our NIST-traceable meters, and   
   also found good agreement as long as the battery was fresh.  One meter   
   produced absurdly high readings when the battery was low; the only way to   
   diagnose this was to put in a    
   fresh one since the meter did not have a LO BAT indicator (I assume it was too   
   low for the band gap reference).   
      
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