Yeah! I have 7 Fluke DMM's. The oldest was made around 1980 and is still working fine.
Yeah, probably a case of you get what you paid for. The gold standard in DMMs are the Fluke brands, but even on eBay they're way too expensive for an amateur like me. I ended up, after doing some research, getting a Kaiweets HT118A off Amazon as a good compromise of price, build, features, and apparent (according to reviews) accuracy and consistency. It's doing well so far, although I haven't stressed it in any way.
Get some rechargeables to save the environment and your wallet.
I've moved all my batteries over to rechargeables and am happy with it. Tip: don't charge and store but charge just before needed. they don't always kee the charge well when stored.
I've moved all my batteries over to rechargeables and am happy with it. Tip: don't charge and store but charge just before needed. they don't always kee the charge well when stored.
Eneloope's and equivalents that comes from the same factory holds their charge surprisingly well (specified to loose only 25% of the charge over a year - when you buy a pack, they come charged and you can normally use them before having to charge), but I do the same as you just to make sure, as I have had one or two inconvenient incidents where a battery was unexpectedly depleted.
I also find it useful to date the batteries with a Sharpie. They do degrade with time and I prefer to bring the newest to important events.
The older batteries goes into remotes and flashlights etc.
My brother-in-law was Director of the photography department of Japan's largest publishing company. Around 2005 when Sanyo introduced Eneloop batteries, he made a departmental decision to stop the use of regular AA and AAA batteries in photographic equipment.
At the time it was still mostly film and almost all their motordriven cameras and flashes etc. where driven by AA and AAA. He told me the annual savings (I have forgotten the exact number) but it was significant enough for him to get a very large year-end-bonus - the latter was the reason he told me I think.
It took me many years before I implemented the principle myself.
Eneloope's and equivalents that comes from the same factory holds their charge surprisingly well (specified to loose only 25% of the charge over a year - when you buy a pack, they come charged and you can normally use them before having to charge), but I do the same as you just to make sure, as I have had one or two inconvenient incidents where a battery was unexpectedly depleted.
I also find it useful to date the batteries with a Sharpie. They do degrade with time and I prefer to bring the newest to important events.
The older batteries goes into remotes and flashlights etc.
My brother-in-law was Director of the photography department of Japan's largest publishing company. Around 2005 when Sanyo introduced Eneloop batteries, he made a departmental decision to stop the use of regular AA and AAA batteries in photographic equipment.
At the time it was still mostly film and almost all their motordriven cameras and flashes etc. where driven by AA and AAA. He told me the annual savings (I have forgotten the exact number) but it was significant enough for him to get a very large year-end-bonus - the latter was the reason he told me I think.
It took me many years before I implemented the principle myself.
If you look at post #32 you can do the math for a time horizon of your choice. (My oldest rechargeable eneloops are around 10 years and still works)I use maybe 8 AA batterties a yr so what is the sdavings for me?
If you look at post #32 you can do the math for a time horizon of your choice. (My oldest rechargeable eneloops are around 10 years and still works)
You mention a consumption rate of 8 AA batteries a year.
From this and another current thread I can see you use an MD-12, MD-4 (8 batt each) a N90s camera (4 batt) a SB-15 flash (4 batt) & a SB16 flash (4 batt).
I would assume that you would have to toggle the batteries around between devices and likely have depleted some more than others.
It is my experience that MD-12 isn't always happy with that. For your use-case, rechargeables would allow you to recharge the batteries to the same charge before loading them into the motordrive.
I have all those but they sit empty most of the time. I just dont use them that much. I jusy got the N90S so that may change. Also just got the MD12
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