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With tools their are clear winners and losers. With equipment its more about how its installed and then the quality of the equipmewnt... When your trusting you life to a tools that needs to give you important information like if voltage is present..... One of my tech recently bought a cheapo voltage meter that he thought was great. I pulled my meter out and read the voltage from a near by receptical. I read 121 VAC he takes the same reading and gets 3 VAC.... I just looked at him and told him to put it in the scrap pile!Originally Posted by Mr Bill
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I was really just talking about a stand alone piece of equipment as an example not the install, and remember any meter is only as good as the person using it.
I don't think there are any winners or losers when your comparing Fieldpiece and Fluke, there both winners IMO.
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It's all about personal preference, I like the Fieldpiece HS36.
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Have both fluke and fieldpiece, I have no problem with either brand depending on what I'm doing but honestly I usally grab the fieldpiece . I think its more of what your more comfortable with.
I had a meter I bought some 35 years ago that had johnstone supply sticker on it. I have no idea what manufacture really made it but I used that thing a good 15 years and 1 day it disappeared ........... stolen by a customer but I could not prove it. Now it took me a couple years to get as comfortable with the replacement meter as I was with that Johnstone supply meter. The one big thing was that older meter didn't do half what the new meter would tho so I guess I was ahead that it was stolen so I would buy a new meter I could do a lot more then I knew I could do being I was using something out dated.
First meter was the old Amprobe with battery in line of one of the probes . That was pretty trick for the time lol.
You see this debate come up all the time but I guess it all depends on what your working on and what your willing to pay. I wont buy cheap meters but I'm not willing to not try other brands being they claim 1 is the only way to go. I am a lot more cautious now then I was starting out. Have seen to many electrocutions over the years and a couple were good friends. Don't let your guard down ....... or it will come back to bite ya
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I agree. I do my Fieldpieces manometer over my Testo 510's, but prefer my fluke DMM. i grew up using fluke products so i have been influenced. For some reason i find Fluke to be made for more professional use then Fieldpiece. Just my personal opinion and in no way am implying fieldpiece is poorly made. I do own some of their products.
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Alcomech, nice attachments there. Thanks for posting them.
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I've had my Sman3 over a year and clamps are fine. I did buy the black smaller one for refrigeration systems. I sometimes use my fluke clamp. Original batteries still. My first piece of Fieldpiece. Bought a FP anemometer and when my Flukes 52, 187, 334 need replaced they may become Fieldpiece also. I never bothered with FP because I didn't like the head adapter stuff. I rather like standalone dedicated tools. I like that FP actually understand our trade. Fluke doesn't quite get it.
I've had Fluke meters the last 25 years.
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Begin rant. I was pissed to find out my fluke 381 was made in china or some far off place. End rant
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The more expensive Fluke products are made in the USA. The US made products also have a lifetime warranty and the other do not. Got to be careful when you buy ANYTHING. Its a shame....
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I paid 400 for it and the damn thing is imported. I have a 87v that cost over 3 bills and it is made here. I love the 381 though just disapointed with fluke. It seems that the products with the lifetime waranty are made here. :beer:
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You can't beat the quality of Fluke! Fieldpiece seems to be cheaply made, but it has more bells and whistles. When I'm working on 460v, I trust Fluke over Fieldpiece any day!
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I concur!
My 1586, 87V and 28II are made in the USA and i won't replace them for anything else. The only product of theirs i have that i know isn't made in the USA is 376... I have written Fluke and hope they give me a honest respones about products made in the USA. I requested a list of DMM and amp probes that are made in the USA and any other products made here.
I will be very disappointed if they completely stop producing products in this country. I do trust their testing products over all others and don't think i will be able to convert with out a tremendous effort and proof provided by another manufacturer!
I do wish Fluke had a DMM/Amp Probe that had all of the functions needed for HVAC work.
I would accept products made in Germany. They have a excellent reputation and produce some of the finest automobiles out their. Even the Japs copy their designs!
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:thumbup: let us know if you hear back from them.
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Here is an example of a Fluke product made in the USA
http://www.fluke.com/fluke/usen/Digi....htm?PID=56135
Read the Bulllet Points at the top of the page.
All of Flukes Industrial Products are made in the USA and have a Lifetime Warranty if im not mistaken.
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Fluke for me all the way.
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I have a Fieldpiece and like most said it does have a hard time reading zero but everyone in my trade school including instructors trust and use Fieldpiece, some have old abused meters that are still going
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I've been a fluke guy till now, But recently got a fieldpiece sc56. I still use and trust My flukes, but that sc56 is a great meter.
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i just wish my fluke 902 measured millivolts. other than that no complaints
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I have a mix of both. I find that Fieldpiece makes items more with the technician in mind. I use Fluke meters for the most part and Fieldpiece for my specialty tools. I recently picked up their wireless scale, I love it! I almost don't want to use it it is so pretty.
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