On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:24 AM, br4av01 <br4av01@...> wrote:
I loved my Simpson 260 and for years that's all I needed, then came the Fluke 8050a style bench meters and handhelds - used those for years. Punching those mechanical buttons on the 8050a all the time sure got old. ?The new style 84401, etc. look great, but I'm looking for a working bench meter and not a laboratory standard.
I'm going to guess that you mean the 34401A.
Do I have to navigate through a menu system every time I switch from voltage to resistance?
No, but the manual is right there on agilent.com so you can see for
yourself when you have to use the menu.
Is constant manual setting of the measurement range necessary (I have to do this constantly with my Fluke 87)?
Hard to answer when you don't say *why* you are constantly setting the
range on the Fluke 87. If you don't like autorange on that meter,
you might not like it on any other meter either.
