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Title: Keysight 34465A/34470A DMM at 2025 under attack by China mainland copycat
Post by: Kiriakos GR on April 24, 2025, 11:15:35 AM
About eight years ago I did skip paying much attention at Keysight True-Volt series of DMM.
a) Keysight inflated products pricing beyond measure.
b) Black face-plates they are not my favorite.

The deep secret of Keysight 34465A/34470A DMM, this is a customized design, this designed to include an easy CAL procedure, this eliminating yearly calibration costs.

Possibly this justifying in a way, Keysight's inflated pricing.
As they were knew, that very few customers will require yearly calibration services from them. 
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In the past two years,  Keysight 34465A  6.5 DMM this has externally cloned by a Chinese copycat.
Front DMM mask down to back plate, all identical.
But there is a difference, Chinese copycat this using 100% produced in mainland components.

At March 2025, Keysight 34470A  7.5 DMM this is now cloned too.  :P

And I, as a simple observer I do wonder.
Why Keysight - Malaysia, this has not activate any countermeasures against this copycat?

( HDM3075 the first domestically produced 7.5 digit multimeter)
Title: Re: Keysight 34465A/34470A DMM at 2025 under attack by China mainland copycat
Post by: Andrew-88 on April 24, 2025, 04:56:01 PM
b) Black face-plates they are not my favorite.

This explains of why, FLUKE 8846A this won your vote.  ;)
Made in USA, high precision, several Japanese components inside, extremely stable at holding it factory calibration !!