John Robertson wrote:

On 03/20/2016 8:09 AM, wrote:
On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 10:37:10 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 01:17:54 -0400, ehsjr Gave us:

On 3/13/2016 11:58 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno wrote:

I have 4 brand new DVMs and one uses a battery pack up in 3 days flat,
turned OFF! I did some net searching and found a forum where it was
discovered that Fluke put a cheap Toshiba supercap in the meter with a
less than 2 year lifespan and AT the same voltage by this behavior.

Just an FYI: Flukes generally carry a lifetime warranty - and this expedient would void that warranty. A more serious failure would then render the unit worthless and without resort to Fluke.

Just keep this in mind.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA


Lifetime by Fluke is defined as seven years after they stop production
of the device:

http://en-us.fluke.com/support/warranties/

My 1980s vintage Fluke test gear 9100s, 9010s, etc., is long past their
lifetime warranty.


Otherwise, they would still have to support old vacuum tube based
equipment that they built in 1948. They don't even list the manual for
my Fluke 8050 meters. Luckily, several free archive sites have it in
PDF.