Sir, you must be using this Multimeter for a long time. Does this Multimeter measure all the readings properly? Should I buy this Multimeter? Please tell 🙏🙏🙏
this one is a bit confusing because at first you say the first meter was fake and you got a refund but then you end saying it was a design change/change of parts/lack of exterior label and not a fake? did you refund the refund?
got a meter which looked different -> got a refund -> opened the meters several months later -> now I think they're both made in the same place but there is still the question of why the first one doesn't have the logo. I did not refund the refund.
Why should they copy that ? They can't make money from something like that. They copy things that is expensive here, like a Fluke or a Rigol or so. But the real Chineze products arn't that bad anymore, they are cheap and good.
This review might not apply anymore. The AN101 now has new features (NCV, Capacitance, Frequency) and deletes the right side "off" button. Who wants to tool up a fake a bargain basement multimeter? Seems like there is a lot more profitability with faking a more expensive device.
i highly doubt its a gray market product! using the same fabrication house?? just to change a ground plane? besides it kinda looked like those fuses had side by side footprints for either / or. common! encouraging theft of service.. thats a strategy that puts hard working people out of business.
gray market = goods coming from unknown or unofficial supplier. This meter did not came from Aneng, they would only sell meters with their logo on. Someone in China is benefiting from the Aneng brandname but selling meters without the Aneng meter, we do not want to encourage that strategy because "it puts hard working people out of business" in this case the hard working people being the ones behind Aneng.
i would look for a revision number on the circuit board. its too expensive to make "replicas" i find it hard to believe they would go through all that work to reproduce a product and not put a $0.0001 sticker on it.
Item appearance does not match the description - reason enough for refund. Sold as brand name item, received unbranded item. If Aliexpress didn't think it was enough reason, they wouldn't have issued the refund. If the seller didn't want this to happen, they should have had a correct product description that they're selling an unbranded item. Of course it's too expensive to produce replica enclosure moulds, but sometimes weird things happen. Uni-T multimeters have been spotted that had genuine looking enclosures and identical PCBs, but the protection circuitry was entirely missing, fuse footprints bridged out, and the soldering and assembly quality was not even close to Uni-T's standards or any decent mass production facility, and similarly weird things happened with Chinese brand power supplies, soldering stations, and other tools. Perhaps someone raided the reject bin that should have been shredded down and finished the assembly in a cellar, barely knowing what they were doing. It's also commonly the case that the same ODM (original design manufacturer) will produce things for various brands and white-label customers with the same enclosure moulds and same PCBs, but different component selection and QC effort, according to different worldwide safety standards (or lack thereof) and price-points, this is why you generally don't want to accept misbranded or unbranded products, just like you wouldn't accept fakes. That these products ended up being close to identical in quality and apparently just revisions of the same exact product is nice, but not something to be relied upon.
I see little use (mostly novelty) for pocket multimeters. The cheap probes and leads scare the hell out of me and the size sacrificing safety can only appeal to those with very little experience in real electronics in the first place.
I don't like SUVs. They are gas guzzlers and dangerous. Does that mean no one else should like them or buy them? I could see myself having one of these meters in my glove compartment, if I had a car.
Best market prices are on commodity items, not niche products created for whimsical uses. You'd pay less and get more for say an AN8002.. it's only slightly bigger, has 6000-counts, but dang! I doesn't fit into invisible glove compartments.. ;-)
6 лет назад
Wow, cheap Chinese stuffs are getting faked too, brave new world ...
Sir, you must be using this Multimeter for a long time. Does this Multimeter measure all the readings properly?
Should I buy this Multimeter? Please tell 🙏🙏🙏
this one is a bit confusing because at first you say the first meter was fake and you got a refund but then you end saying it was a design change/change of parts/lack of exterior label and not a fake? did you refund the refund?
got a meter which looked different -> got a refund -> opened the meters several months later -> now I think they're both made in the same place but there is still the question of why the first one doesn't have the logo. I did not refund the refund.
They have many pcb version ( for oem brand ) ?
Did notice any difference in performance?
The first thumbs down is probably from that seller :-)
It's okay, I don't mind that =]
Why should they copy that ? They can't make money from something like that. They copy things that is expensive here, like a Fluke or a Rigol or so. But the real Chineze products arn't that bad anymore, they are cheap and good.
I noticed, my AUTOOL DM700 (same as Aneng 8008) Fake Rybycon capicitor was changed
Hynez.
Seems to be produced at the same plant. Wonder if Aneng is the producer at all or only a brandname
Aneng is definitely just a name, they don't make their meters themselves.
Would news of fakes, be considered "Fake News"?
nope it doesn't work that way.
This review might not apply anymore. The AN101 now has new features (NCV, Capacitance, Frequency) and deletes the right side "off" button. Who wants to tool up a fake a bargain basement multimeter? Seems like there is a lot more profitability with faking a more expensive device.
That 'Aneng logo' is just a sticker.
Just pay back what you owe them! They both the same the Aneng logo looks like a sticker..
or it could very well be a gray market item, and we should not encourage that kind of strategy.
VoltLog True and valid...
you owe money. LOL thats a simple revision change.
or it could very well be a gray market item, and we should not encourage that kind of strategy.
i highly doubt its a gray market product! using the same fabrication house?? just to change a ground plane? besides it kinda looked like those fuses had side by side footprints for either / or. common! encouraging theft of service.. thats a strategy that puts hard working people out of business.
gray market = goods coming from unknown or unofficial supplier. This meter did not came from Aneng, they would only sell meters with their logo on. Someone in China is benefiting from the Aneng brandname but selling meters without the Aneng meter, we do not want to encourage that strategy because "it puts hard working people out of business" in this case the hard working people being the ones behind Aneng.
i would look for a revision number on the circuit board. its too expensive to make "replicas" i find it hard to believe they would go through all that work to reproduce a product and not put a $0.0001 sticker on it.
Item appearance does not match the description - reason enough for refund. Sold as brand name item, received unbranded item. If Aliexpress didn't think it was enough reason, they wouldn't have issued the refund. If the seller didn't want this to happen, they should have had a correct product description that they're selling an unbranded item.
Of course it's too expensive to produce replica enclosure moulds, but sometimes weird things happen. Uni-T multimeters have been spotted that had genuine looking enclosures and identical PCBs, but the protection circuitry was entirely missing, fuse footprints bridged out, and the soldering and assembly quality was not even close to Uni-T's standards or any decent mass production facility, and similarly weird things happened with Chinese brand power supplies, soldering stations, and other tools. Perhaps someone raided the reject bin that should have been shredded down and finished the assembly in a cellar, barely knowing what they were doing. It's also commonly the case that the same ODM (original design manufacturer) will produce things for various brands and white-label customers with the same enclosure moulds and same PCBs, but different component selection and QC effort, according to different worldwide safety standards (or lack thereof) and price-points, this is why you generally don't want to accept misbranded or unbranded products, just like you wouldn't accept fakes.
That these products ended up being close to identical in quality and apparently just revisions of the same exact product is nice, but not something to be relied upon.
Thanks for decreasing your account for the sake of comparison.
happy to do that! =]
Thanks for sharing :-)
Both are chines if one would be fake then definitely it will have same Chinese quality. Chinese are very good copy cat.
I see little use (mostly novelty) for pocket multimeters. The cheap probes and leads scare the hell out of me and the size sacrificing safety can only appeal to those with very little experience in real electronics in the first place.
Wow.
I'd say they're very useful for low voltage applications, which is what many electrical engineers work on.
...and engineers work on benches. No need to unfold amateur 2000-count garbage from their pockets.
I don't like SUVs. They are gas guzzlers and dangerous. Does that mean no one else should like them or buy them? I could see myself having one of these meters in my glove compartment, if I had a car.
Best market prices are on commodity items, not niche products created for whimsical uses. You'd pay less and get more for say an AN8002.. it's only slightly bigger, has 6000-counts, but dang! I doesn't fit into invisible glove compartments.. ;-)
Wow, cheap Chinese stuffs are getting faked too, brave new world ...
I'm inclining to believe it's made in the same factory but went a different route instead of the official Aneng store.