Swore by Fluke meters for 15 years, switched to Keysight after a week on a CRJ-200

First job out of school I was Fluke or nothing. Last month I was doing an LRU swap on a CRJ-200 in a hangar in Omaha and kept getting intermittent resistance readings on a terminal block. Grabbed a buddy's Keysight U1282A on a whim and the damn thing caught a loose pin the Fluke was averaging out. Been using the Keysight every day for three weeks now. Anyone else run into a situation where a different brand of meter caught something your usual one missed?

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matthewross17h ago

...I don't know, I've been using Fluke meters for about twenty years now and I've never had one miss something that serious. Sounds more like the Fluke was working fine and the Keysight just happened to have better luck finding it. You sure you had the leads seated right on that Fluke? I've chased intermittent readings before only to realize it was my own technique. Give me a Fluke 87 and some fresh test leads and I'll find the same loose pin. It's not like the meters are that different deep down.