Zotek ZT219 Multimeter Review
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- This video is about Zotek ZT219 Multimeter Review. I'll review the ZT219 TRMS multimeter. I'll also announce a giveaway to a subscriber who likes and comments on the video as well as sends me an email at KissAnalog@gmail.com #ZT219 #ZOYImultimeter #ZOTEKmultimete
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Love the thorough review! Only recently found your videos and I am impressed more with each one. Love the content! Keep it up, Eddie!
Thank you Jonathan! I appreciate the great feedback!
Thank you very much for all your really interesting videos. I've been slowly building a small lab, and I got a lot of inspiration from your equipment reviews, which is what brought me to your review of the Zotec. I found the test of the 20A function particularly interesting as well as the discovery of the resistance fluctuation with the leads.
You are welcome Question Mark;) I appreciate your feedback and I'm happy to be helping. I notice some inexpensive leads come with a coating or some film on the metal. I tried different leads and the reading was solid. I bought some leads to do a review - I'll get that done for this weekend. There are some great inexpensive leads.
Great video Eddie as always I've been going through all your. Multi meter vidios lately to see which one to get realizing I need more than one thanks for the great info
Thank you George, I appreciate you!
This was a nice review! I like how you looked at areas a lot of multimeter reviews leave out, and the way you take a "for what it is" approach, aligning expectations with reality when looking at inexpensive multimeters. I've always had good luck with Zotek products, and they actually make my current favorite multimeter (Zotek VC17b+, usually in the $25 range), so it's especially nice to one of theirs reviewed here! :)
Thanks Robin - I appreciate the great feedback! Since doing this channel, I have found that many of these low cost meters are actually very nice. I've become confident that there are many better choices than a Fluke. Even though I once thought that they were the best.
@@KissAnalog I just got a lovely new toy that made me think of you. It's a 20000 count meter, for less than $38 on Amazon. It's a Thsinde 18 Z-III. It reminds me a lot of the Surpeer AV4, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. :)
Great video, I came across your channel recently & liked the way you made a series of different classes of amplifiers.
Thank you - I appreciate the feedback and support!
Thanks for the video, Eddie! I got lucky and snagged one of these (same but called AN870) for $23 shipped from Amazon! Thanks for the thorough review.
That's awesome! Let us know how you like it. Thanks for the feedback!
Good morning!! Another great review.. Thank you!!
Thank you and I appreciate the support!
Great work eddie, like others i've never seen that brand. Seems quite good! I would love to have one!
greetings from agrentina
That’s great to hear from Argentina! Don’t forget to send an email for a chance to win the meter.
Great video, thanks Eddie.
Thanks - I appreciate you!
Good review, thank you
You bet! I appreciate you!
Looks like a decent meter for the cost good video keep them coming
Thank you! Send an email to win one;)
Good enough to use at the utility.
Good review! Thanks for speeding up portions. I have three Zotec-made meters, two as Anene and a Kasuntest. Seems like a first generation where they were all light blue and a second generation in vermillion-red. The light blue surround on my meter of the same form factor is firm but had an unbearable chemical odor, took a couple years to fade. Biggest issue for me is low ohms readings, specifically, when measuring emitter resistor leads, I had poor repeatability of readings even using REL or just mentally zeroing. I was trying to determine how far off some 0.2 ohm resistors were, ended up replacing resistors unnecessarily. I found my little generic Capacitor ESR meter yielded much better results on fractional Ohm resistors. Blaming the test leads I thought I'd but another set of basic Muller test leads, the set I have are still good, a few decades old. But new ones cost more than these meters!
Thanks for the feedback - and for reminding me of yet another great brand of leads (Muller). I agree, they are a bit on the higher price. I’ll have to investigate this low ohm measurement case - thanks!
nice review! by the way I'm from Philippines, im watching your videos as a reference of what kind of multimeter should i buy.
That’s great! Happy to hear from the Philippines;)
The CE mark is a rip off of the European CE mark. In Europe the CE mark indicates your product meets international standards and is independently tested and certified for sale across EU countries. The Chinese have been using the counterfeit CE symbol for year. Their products may be good value but their business practice is not.
Thank you for this feedback! When I worked in an industry where we were certified to test to UL, we could also self-certify and place the CE mark. The CE folks can come in and audit, but they allow the self certification. I would think that companies that don't want to get in trouble with placing the CE mark would have to comply. So, the larger name Chinese vendors, like Zotek, would have to comply to stay in good standing. Honestly, for categories up to CAT 3, I wouldn't think it would be that difficult.
Thanks again
I appreciate you!
Nice multimeter and very good review ,i found your channel few days ago you are making good job please keep it up, comparing with other multimeters is a good thing and I am from turkey is this a problem with giveaway ??
I'll have to check postage - but I like the idea that someone in Turkey is watching my videos, so I'll do what I can. Send the email ok?
i've sent the email thanks for your feedback and attention
Thank you.
You're welcome! Thanks for the feedback.
CE stands for Conformitè Europëenne with is French for if you want to sell electronics in the EA you need this mark.
Thanks for this feedback. Yes, but the CE is actually the least expensive mark to get as it is a self - certification. Yes, the CE folks can come audit you if their mark is used, but with other marks, like UL, VDE, or ETL, you have to send a number of units for testing (some of which is destructive), plus the fee for this testing is not trivial. When you can self test, you use your own labor and schedule, so cost is much lower. I once worked at a place that we had everything marked with just about every mark, and we were UL certified, so we could do our UL testing as well as place the CE mark (which was automatic really after doing our UL testing). I like the ETL giving UL competition;)
Love you reviews Eddie, they are objective with friendly attitude :) I really don't understand why Chinese manufacturers faking CAT ratings, to be honest I would happily buy CAT II rated multimeter knowing that it is a real rating. I agree with Dave Jones on this. I'm not sure if the manufacturers of cheap meters realising, that they are potentially facing charges or lawsuit should injury happens???
Thank you and I appreciate you! I agree and I think most of us only need CAT II. Actually anyone working CAT III or CAT IV are trained and know to buy a meeter with an agency approval, and not just go with CE. Anyone not trained testing in those Categories is taking a huge risk no matter the meter. I think most people and even most engineers probably don't even know what the CAT ratings are.
@@KissAnalog Well anyone who has common sense and working in industry will probably have fluke or other well known brands. Cat rating is well explained on fluke website or on eevblog forum. Maybe you could make a video about it?
I agree - very important subject. I have made a few videos on this subject to explain the importance but also the value of inexpensive meters. Here is a link to a play list;)
ruclips.net/p/PLZ0_iMoMBSsl3qDK_rDBReBc4UoSGC77A
2:15 I think that many manyfacturers of the multimeters have lowered there current measurement from 20A to 10A for costsavings and more profit.
For the adjustment is only a different current shunt (thinner) needed, (the first costsaving) and second,
if the meter is only made for 10A, they must not provide testleads which are 20A rated (second costsaving) because the 10A testleads have less copper. In overall,the need less copper per the meter, and the meter will also have more chance to pass safety tests.
I think you are right. Thanks for the feedback!
that multimeter can be found rebranded as aneng an870 or richmeters rm219
Great feedback - thanks!
This would make a nice goto meter for basic measurements, and save the Zir or Fluke class meters for more critical stuff.
I agree;) It seems like a great meter - especially given the price.
Great review what about
Victor VC98A+ Multimeter
Thanks Salah! That's a great question. I've never used a Victor, so I need to get one and try it out. I have heard good things. Do you have one and do you like it?
Nice one, can do microvolt measurement pretty accurate, just a few count different from fluke 187.
I use mine to measure contact resistance with 1A current and compare the result in microvolt to fluke 187/287.
For input protection I'd add mov and a 100mA fuse in series to it (50mA would be better if you can find one) for volt/ohm/cap input port.
It already have transistor/diode clamping for low voltage ohm input, but I wouldn't count on it; I bet it'll blow up the first chance you got a small transient.
Should add a low voltage tvs as well for additional clamping protection.
Microvolt a bit funny, they'd jump from 0uV straight to 5uV, but linearly afterwards, while flukes would show 1 or 2 uV (noise probably).
In mV scale those ZT219 does have very high impedance compared to fluke's 10M Ohm.
ZT219 does indeed looks similar to VC17b/VC15b, but it does a bit heavier.
I'd do put some shieldings too on the back case near those chipset.
Read on the internet that you could upgrade those electrolytic capacitor into something like 1000uF 10v low ESR to improve noise suppression from voltage regulation into the IC, would improve measurement speed.
Then there also a small voltage reference (TO-92) with small MLCC, suggested that you upgrade that too into at least 4.7uF as per-datasheet.
Additional notes, adding a mov across COM & VOLT + a 100mA series fuse would add something like 20pF additional capacitance and ~3 ohms additional resistance across that ports.
Zt219 and zt109 is the cheapest dmm I can find that will do microvolt measurement.
Accuracy wise, they're very close to my (rather expensive) fluke 287, just 2 or 3 uV differences.
Maybe I'll sell those 287s.
Great feedback, but I’ll also bet when taking microvolt readings it is not in CAT III or CAT IV conditions so the spike protection provided by MOVs is of no concern.
Hello great Review!!! I dont know that brand. Im from Argentina is that a problem for the giveaway?? Thanks!!!
Not for you! I appreciate your support!
Zotec ZT219 or UNI-T 136C+, which one you will recomended ?
I thought I'd responded to this but I see on a number of my responses that they were not uploaded. Sorry about that.
These are 2 very similar meters - so great question. One think I do like about the Zotec is the 1999 count display, so it should provide higher resolution. I have another option which I like. I'll do a review very soon. Here's the link: amzn.to/2N0CWmO
@@KissAnalog thank you for answer my question.
Like the video, it's okay for the price just a little too flaky for me. Do love the probe and being able to turn off the APO. The APO on mine may get it smashed in the wall someday ha., ha...
LOLaI think I feel the same way. Thanks Robert!
Your face looks like metalica lead vocal. Sir..!!! 🤭
LOL - I get that from time to time ;)
Zotek make a lot of others meters, ZOYI is there own brand as well as Zotek, other companies like Aneng, richmeters, Bside etc just either rebrand or have their meters made by Zotek
Thanks - that’s great feedback!
Where can I get SENCORE 'Z' METER.THAT YOU HAVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE WHERE YOU SIT.THANK U.
I'll see if I can find one. What is it about the Sencore Z meter that you like? Just wondering if I know of a good substitute.
@@KissAnalog I bought this unit in Japan (100v I rewind the primary input to 240v 50hz).very accuracy.good for testing high voltage capacitors,transformers and coils.when I do windings, easy to test and check.mostly high voltage like flyback coils use in TVs.some can't get.so I make one and fix a trippler unit to setup to DC volt 25kv for CRT tube.easy to do my work with more confidence.
Bro,this is email address.sugumaran8015555@gmail.com.my first oscilloscope 20mhz MARCONI MADE IN ENGLAND.(second world war used) vacuum valve tubes model.than 1990 I made my own oscilloscope 30mhz using monochrome 16" TV and step by step I built up complete servicing, repairing, modifications, calibration and reconditioning Speakers up to 36".
OK I can see why this meter works so well for you. I'll see what I can find.
Wow, that is really great that you made your scope;) I always liked the Marconi equipment that I've found.
That was an excellent evaluation, very comprehensive.
If available, I'd like to get one of them.
Gerard Regnier
41600 Vargas Rd.
Fremont, CA, 94539
Thanks for that nice feedback Gerard! Please send an email to KissAnalog@gmail.com OK?
I will buy victor VC98A+ the main problem there is no any vedio about this meter i dont know good not good before i buy it
Thanks for bring this up;) I am looking at one now, and they do look impressive! I think I'll have to get one to review it;)
@@KissAnalog thank you so much
You bet!
You can get this for 20 doller on toabao! Unbelievable
The price is great! Thanks for the feedback!
Onboard chep no nice
Do you like this meter?
@@KissAnalog Yes, but this type of Ic is not interesting
@@KissAnalog Say one sentence about this multimeter
I had to buy this multimeter for testing. "I must say that it is really accurate."