Review: £10 multimeters - Now includes the new RS-14!

[Murphyv310]

   
Hi.
I ordered mine last evening from Banggood at £11.02 delivery 7-20 days which is the norm.
I have had a few items over time that didn't turn up in the time slot and these were refunded with no issues at all then perhaps a couple of weeks later they arrive. I have then contacted them again to inform them the item is here. The terms and conditions are that they have not done as as requested and you keep the item for no charge........ can't really ask better than that.


********** now even cheaper******** see above.

[Mark Hennessy]

That's really a very good price. The AN8008 is £18.74 at the moment, but the eBay price is ~£15. It might well be worth paying a little extra to buy from Banggood because of their excellent service.

[jjl]

I've ordered an AN8008 too, looking forward to giving it a work out.

John

[Mark Hennessy]

Hi John,

I'm not sure how I managed to miss this post - the forum software isn't very good at alerting us to posts that are awaiting approval. Apologies!

Good luck with the meter. These are certainly pretty incredibly for the money - not perfect, but nothing is. In fact, owning both an AN8008 and an AN8002 covers all bases (the 8008 has microamps, but isn't so good at low milliamps, whereas the AN8002 lacks microamps but does milliamps perfectly). 1nV resolution is into serious high-end territory. There's been a lot of chat about them on UKVRRR and EEVblog as well. The real question is how well do they hold up over time. Even so, you can have 10 of these for the price of one Fluke 115, and this meter does some things better, so for low-energy electronics bench work, these are a cracking deal.

Cheers,

Mark

[jimmc101]

Just a quick heads up, the AN8008 is down to £13.13 at Bangood.
Especially good as it takes it below the £15 customs limit.

I couldn't resist and have ordered one.

Thanks to Mark for the review.

Jim

[Murphyv310]

So far I've never paid any customs duty from either Wish or Banggood, maybe I've just been lucky.

[radioman]

Thanks Jim for the 'heads up' about the AN8008 at Banggood.
I've just ordered one !

Andy

[Mark Hennessy]

Remember - you need an AN8002 as well

The AN8008 has gaps in the current ranges, and as a result, it doesn't measure low milliamps very well. It's the cost of including a uA range, and using the 10A shunt to measure milliamps - made possible by the very good voltage sensitivity of the IC. Personally, I'd rather they'd dropped the square wave generator and included a separate mA range using a 1 ohm shunt or similar, but it is what it is. The AN8002 doesn't do microamps, but does milliamps perfectly. And on those occasions when you need 2 multimeters to monitor 2 things in a circuit, it's nice that they're different colours. Well, I find it helps.

I'm in the middle of writing up these reviews for my website, with more detail in light of experience. Also, I've bought some more cheap multimeters, including a manually-ranging one (but using the DTMO660 chipset, so 6000-count and true-RMS) for those that prefer manual ranging. I'm still waiting on a delivery before I can complete them, but it should be here any day now.

[Murphyv310]

I've ordered an 8008 as well now Mark. I've a few meters that were £20 jobbies in their day but are well past their sell by date. I also have a Fluke 10 which is very basic indeed so the two new meters will be used regularly.
Again thanks for the great write ups and all the links to the sale of these meters

[peter scott]

Again thanks for the great write ups and all the links to the sale of these meters

I second that!

I bought a ZT102 (AN8002) for £9.98 post free and am very pleased with it.

Thanks,

Peter