My bet is, you'll see the same results with a Fluke. Maybe a few tenths off, but same fluctuating results.


EDIT: My Dad also has a Fluke 8060A that will one day be mine.... and I hope that's several years from now. But, my Brother really doesn't have a lot of interest in my Dad's tools. I'm sure he won't want the Lincoln Welder either.

EDIT2: I think these are my favorite meters I've ever used. Rock Solid!

 

it will be nice to have one I know I can trust though. My dad never really kept mechanical tools around. His dad was a blacksmith and welder by trade and my dad hand hewed every pine tree cut off our family land to build my childhood home. I think that may have been enough for him for a life time. Lol

 

Difference between Fluke or Simpson (even china Fluke) and random name meter is that;
when the power people show up and the line voltage is the most perfect it has ever been, they will believe the video you show them of a Fluke or Simpson or Amprobe meter.

The first thing they will say when you show them video of cheap meter and power not problem (my luck would be that the power is perfect while they are there) is that your meter isn't calibrated and our calibrated meters do not show an issue.
Anytime I've seen our power company (Dominion Power) people, they have all the best tools.

Lost a phase one time and the Dominion dude came out with a camera with a screen and looked at the ground and you could see the heat from the wires under the dirt and where that stopped is where the break was. Took him longer to put his rubber boots on than to find the broken wire.

If the issue is on the load side of the meter though, they won't fix it. Line side of meter, they will.

 

Mine was a master machinist but wrenched when that was what was to be had. Also built a log cabin in AK for us. I have his two axes.

Fluke turned me down after the army crypto when I Bremerton, a naval shipyard town. "Over-qualified" as a movie projectionist, I gave up after 6 months ago found sillycom valley. Electronics otherwise did not much exist yet.

For this task, a $3.95 Radio Shack Micronta VOM is fine. Watching my coins, I tend to get a meter from Home Depot. Their cheapies are fine, but one I have is $99, a Klein, but rain proof and accepts a 6 ft ladder drop. They had a $65 unit that took a 3 ft drop. Bright orange, can be spotted easier. Can always find a desired probe, (comes w a thermocouple,) just as Nikon always had lenses, like for use in explosive environs (operating rooms,) with a built in ring flash, or one to counter parallax, (architecture.) Pinching dollars, rugged, water resistant and findable rate high with me - not lost or damaged, less need to buy again. HD also has a green brand with a good cheap unit at $30. Good in a truck.

Feit sold contractor bulbs, 130 V rated, less bright, lasted longer in poor electrical conditions, i.e., generators in nee constructions. Proof of your situation, IFF it's their fault, can assist with damage claims. Ask to look at V's at a couple neighbors? Ask of any appliance issues they have had. Notice as you go if they are on the same line/transformer.

Is this on both legs at your place???

 

I want to tell you about a great, inexpensive electrical tool. Great as a gift for meterless people and the non-handy.

Start w a $10-15 3-prong polarity indicator, preferably one with a push button to test GFI's.
Add onto it, a 79¢ 2 prong to 3, Gnd adaptor.
Plug into a lamp screw-in receptacle.

Now the newly married, college student apartment dweller can test everything but voltage. Receptacles for correct wiring, often the wrong polarity in apartments, to lamps. (With a couple test leads, it can trouble shoot even more.)

These belong in any home, along with that fire extinguisher.
Great for truck or travel emergency tool bag or a gift. I add a plug in lamp socket to the end so I can make any outlet into a lamp. Sounds stupid until you need a light in a new place and nothing is unpacked. Borrow a bulb from the fridge or garage door opener.

 

I like my Ideal (not pictured) probably the best, did use the Fluke tho... for all the harness work last year on the Super Duty, -

 

Yellow is good...
Having a meter is good.
Ideal? Isn't that what Wily Coyote uses?!?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_Industries

Well, they are US'ian made.
More than I can say for my now, *****'nezee Fluke.

 

Ideal (southwire).

Wile E. Coyote uses Acme and a TNT brands I believe.

 

This is my Fluke. Not a TON of extras, but when I need something dead nuts accurate - it's my weapon of choice.