Fluke 87V MAX Review
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2023
- This is a review of the Fluke 87V MAX multimeter for use in hobby electronics projects primarily related to amateur radio.
A pdf document of this review: github.com/TomWilkinson/Multi...
This review was produced to help you decide if the Fluke 87V MAX multimeter will fit your purpose and budget. This is part of a series of multimeters reviews.
A good multimeter for hobby electronic projects should be able to measure millivolts, volts, microamps, milliamps, amps, ohms, nanofarads and microfarads.
If you want to measure picofarads, nanohenry, microhenry or reactance you will need a LCR meters. I cover the two LCR meters I own in another review.
I am not a professional, I am a hobbyist. This review is not sponsored; I bought this multimeter with my own money. I only used and tested this multimeter in CAT I and CAT II environments. I do not have a way to review or test the safety of this meter. I leave the CAT III and CAT IV environments to trained and licensed professionals. It may seem like I am a Fluke fan boy, but I recognize their flaws along with their advantages. There may be unintended mistakes and/or errors in this review. - Наука та технологія
Hello from Manchester, UK. Really like your reviews and your clear, chilled out, easy to listen to voice. Enjoyable content. Keep it up.
Amazon reduced its price last week to 349, I took the opportunity and purchased it.
A detailed review and honest conclusion. Nice.
I use one every day. I work outside in dust and rain and it’s my favorite. Buy once, cry once. Buy twice, pay the price.
Good saying. I've heard it a different way: "You can cuss a tool once when you buy it or every time you use it." I love my 87V Max.
If you're up to it, the Fluke 325 clamp meter would be very interesting. Not too big and it's features seem good enough for a service technician on the go.
Great work by the way!
Good video and good multimeter, thanks for your work. Greetings from Spain from EB1FMN
It's different from the 87V because it's not really an 87V, it's a rebadged 28-II.
True. But, Flukes intent with the 87V MAX is to offer a more ruggedized meter inline with the popular 80 series, along with all the advancements of the 5th generation.
@@AK-ITThe ‘ advancements’ came out in 2004
The Aa batteries is nice on the 87v max, that was one of the deciding factors between and its little brother 87v the back lit buttons
Wouldn’t mind seeing some reviews on clamp meters. Would be interesting to see.
Gran video... Gracias
Thank you for the truly very complete video.
There is something that worries me about this FLUKE 87 v Max meter, and that is that for measuring Diodes it only produces 2 Volts,...
Do you know how many milliamps it supplies in the Diode test?...
From the outside I see that it is a great team just like the normal 87 V,...
Will the FLUKE 87v max detect a leak in a semiconductor such as a Diode?
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The 87 MAX in my testing used 2.38 Volts and 1 mA for diode testing. I did not test diode leakage but the manual states: "A short beep sounds if the diode is good (
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I'm about to decide whether to buy the Max...
I have the 87 v and it is excellent but I can't get the Max out of my head, 😊
Thanks for the detailed review! What country is this one made in? I'm trying to find any Flukes still made in the USA, especially with the limited lifetime warranty. 73
The meter is marked as "Assembled in USA". Also the Fluke 289, 177 and 87V are all marked the same way. I have a 179 from 20 years ago marked "Made in USA". I also pickup up a new old stock open box 189 (maybe 20 year old) and it is marked as "Made in USA".
Better if fluke update the rubber holster to a slim one , don't care much for drop test . I like that the fluorescent buttons help in case of blackout , to know where you are in the room, give a reference point.
The 87's are industrial meters designed for the needs of an industrial technician in the real world. Features that the 87's have like being able to measure resistance in nanosiemens to check motor windings, goes way beyond the typical DMM user. In industrial setting you need equipment that can take the environment that you are working in, all while maintaining industry accepted measurements and safety. When you call the power company complaining about about unbalanced 3 phase power, they want to know what DMM you're using. OMG There's nothing like watching expensive electronic tools fog up under the in the LCD screen in the rain. I need a meter that can go from a dark damp or hot crawl space, to the great outdoors in a pouring rain or direct sunlight without missing a beat. Oh and yes occasionally while on the ladder I will bump it and the magnetic holder lets go, falling from above the t-bar! The 87 V is there for those who don't need as robust a meter, but most DMM users really don't need a $500+ DMM.
Here's a question for you - how often does it sample when calculating voltage averages?
In Min/Max mode it is 100 milliseconds in Peak Min/Max mode it is 250 microseconds.
This is my first meter ever, i hope i don't need another one
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The back light is plenty bright enough to read the screen and buttons in its dim setting. Something that I don't think was mentioned is that the buttons actually glow in the dark. This is handy so you can see the buttons well enough to turn the back light back on when it times out. Compareing the back light to my Fluke 116, yes the 116 is a little brighter, but I still don't see myself pressing the button the second time to get the screen brighter. Brighter is not always better, in a dark crawl space, when your eyes have to readjust to the lack of light of your work. With the Fluke 116, you can clearly see the hot spot where light is coming from, not so with the 87 Ⅴ MAX. The light is very even with no hot spots, corner to corner as you should expect with a high end DMM.
On the 87 Ⅴ MAX, you don't need to brake the calibration seal to replace the fuses, like on all previous 87's. If you need a calibration, a broken calibration seal is the same as no calibration at all.
Its ability to measure in ℧ MHO as well as Ω OHM is very handy for diagnosing motors, that may be shorted to ground.
It's ability to properly read voltage from a VFD canceling out the PWM, lets you see what the motor is seeing, without the DMM getting confused, by the VFD's PWM output. Use this with caution though actual PWM voltage is much higher than this mode will show.
The 87 Ⅴ MAX is very easy to make repairs inside, I recently took apart another brand of HVAC DMM, I don't know how they were able to efficiently assemble it in the first place, then to find out that the broken part was not available. One factor of the cheaper meter was that it didn't say OL when It was ranging. A DMM that says 0.00 when it is ranging can get you killed in a high voltage circuit.
The two things that it lacks that would be nice is the ability to see inrush voltage, sampling at 100 ms is not nearly fast enough for that. This feature is only available on their clamp meters, but I don't see why it couldn't do this coupled to the FLUKE i400. Be wary of DMM's that claim to read inrush with a sampling rate of 100 ms. Fluke's DMM's that can read inrush make 400 samples in 100 ms.
It also lacks a LoZ function that help you diagnose the difference between ghost voltage and a poor connection like a carbon tracked breaker or disconnect.
Field-Day, humm. . . . .I guess, most measurements made at Field-day don't require such a sophisticated DMM! You should be in some sort of a protected structure at these events. This is definitely not a SOTA DMM!!! My gosh, weighs more than the radio!
When you're buying Fluke It's not that it is the best most advanced DMM's out there. The operation of their equipment changes very little over the years. It takes time to truly understand and trust your DMM, and any misunderstanding your DMM can get you killed. My dad could pickup my 87 Ⅴ MAX, and feel right at home with mussel memory from original 1990's Fluke 87, that still works to this day. The only thing that would catch him is the newer 87's default to AC instead of DC, but even that change only effects the mV, mA, and μA positions so it's not likely to be life threatening. I feel an industrial DMM should default to AC.
That little decal with the 40 in the arrow circle, is an EU symbol that says it is expected to last for 40 years. I look for that symbol when buying equipment and you rarely see it higher than 10.
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sir, are you blind?
I got a feeling he is partially blind.