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On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 4:57:07 PM UTC-4, Michael Terrell wrote:
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Eveready or Duracell, either will replace the unit at no cost. Chinese crap, no. Fluke would call that negligence, and rightly so.


Peter, the Fluke meters that I've repaired all had GE labeled NiCads.
They were assembled in the form of two packs of two cells that were
soldered together in a pair, and they used some Berg terminals that
snapped onto tiny ball tipped terminal posts. They were approximately C
cell sized, and each pair was in a snap on cover, one on each side of
the line transformer. I have located a supply of new cells from another
OEM, but the wires are hard as a rock, and most of the terminals ar
damaged in the latest batch of Fluke 8050 meters that I received. I have
been unable to locate the part number for the terminals. It isn't listed
in the Fluke manuals. We used that terminal at Microdyne, but I no
longer have any contacts there now that it is part of L3-Com, in Philly.
As far as I know, they dropped support for every product that used that
terminal, as well.

Send them to Fluke. Betcha you will be pleasantly surprised.

Fluke used to sell replacement battery packs, so there was no
warranty. These did not damage anything, they simply loose the ability
to take a charge of the decades. The problem is that you can not use
the meter from AC, since the battery powered version has an inverter
that needs the NiCads on the input side to operate. Look at the
schematic of a model 8050, and read the manula where it warns you not to
use that version with dead or missing battery packs.