ANENG AL01 CHEAP-O Multimeter Review & Teardown!

Oh boy! New Darren Walker (and Aneng) content! Thank god I've got my snacks and drinks

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Excellent review, thank you as always. I guess ANENG just cut a few too many corners on this one. They have better multimeters though with the same size, just a bit pricier but clearly worth it.

If inductance, NCV and size of the fuses were ok that would be my choice for DMM

2/5 oof that is really low for your ratings. Usually I think you are pretty generous, but if you rated it that low, I'll consider it garbage. Aneng seems to have fallen off. They used to be close to Kaiweets, but now it seems like they are pumping out low quality junk. I recently ordered a DSO3D12 from Zeweii to test the voice activated commands. Hopefully it arrives in a week or 2. Keep. Keep doing what you do. Love the high quality reviews.

So the one trick pony is a donkey. Nice light emitting diode test rig. Your old method did not guarantee a connection

What on Earth has happened to Aneng? all misses lately. I think the unobtanium fuse choice is to discourage you from blowing them up😊or if I was the cynical type so you have to replace the meter.

Sadly not quite ready for prime time -- if your gonna be bold enough to add the moniker "high precision" to a meter then add a mH range maybe it needs to oh, I dont know....WORK. LOL I like some of my old Aneng products, some I dont - its always been hit or miss with them, I have a couple little 8008/8009's from my early first meter days that've always been fairly dependable little cheap-o's and worth what I paid for 'em- but I had to move on to bigger and better things so UniT became my new cheapo brand and I even sprung for a couple higher/mid end ones as most are pretty darn good but as with Aneng even with UniT theres been one here and there in the past that had their quirks, but for the most part UniT really picked up their game over time with some great offerings and Aneng needs to do the same to stay in the game.

It's really a mixed bag with a little too much on the negative side. The fuse choice is unforgivable though.

@Darren Walker Try probe from Mechanic P30

This is the kinda meter I probably would have bought based on features, specs and appearances. Grateful for your review and hopeful that others will avoid this steaming pile of cr4p

Thanks for the review. My 8008 is good enough for my vehicle go bag. Those fuses really? At least they could have used a standard size.

Promising a function if it doesn´t work - That´s a no-go! Fake it until you take it is not a possibility for test equipment. Aneng had builded up some reputation with the famous 9999 Count multimeters 8008/8009. And delivers a sudden death with this one. Very sad! BTW: Very nice LED - test rig. This time it simply works! Even the haunted yellow one...

Unfortunately, no firmware updates can be possible, this chip has a mask ROM.
PS, yesterday I played Luxor Evolved and suddenly saw "Darren Walker" in the final credits. Is it a coincidence?

Imho, without induction and ncv, it would be not so bad multimeter, even with low quality probes. But it is chinese kind of way )
PS Fault NCV = literally death threat (

Well, I guess AL in its name could stand for "alcohol". It's slow at continuity, regularly misreads inductance, can't see the NCV right in front of it. Go home, Aneng, you're drunk. 🥴

Привет Даррен. Согласен полностью с оценкой. Очень странно, Аненг решили сделать новое бюджетное устройство на обновленном контроллере, а получилось хуже чем было. Всё же клоны на древнем 0660L Работают лучше.

please review and accuracy MF47 analog multimeter made in china.

Not much point adding a function that doesn't work too well!! I have seen those size fuses as through hole components soldered onto boards but never as standard clip in fuses, unless they cut the legs off of course.

Nitpicking but that is not an external oscillator. It is an internal oscillator. The can marked 8.000 is a crystal, not an oscillator.

Thanks! Would love some comments on how it compares to the AN8008 with the same form factor that everyone raves about (for the price). The case is so nice looking because it's copied from / based it on the Fluke 100 series (101, 106, 107).

On inductance - I suspect faulty sample. I've just received my AL01 to replace my old broken UniT with inductance capability (UT71). My new AL01 was spot-on (within 5% of nominal) on my power inductors. 0.68-3.3uH.

Excellent! Glad it's working properly on your unit. 👍

Yeah, for 20 bucks it's absolutely worth.

Probably it's designed for the smaller chinese hands?

I agree to measure the smaller values more accurate. Nowadays the DC-DC converters use all values from 100nH to 100uH. So, all fine with the Aning!

NASA SP287 " WHAT MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? "
" of course , the way we got this job done was with meeting , big meetings , little meeting hundreds of meetings !
(( " the thing we always tried to do in these meetings was to encourage every one no matter how shy to speak out !!! " ))
WHY encourage every one NO MATTER HOW SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT !!! IS ULTIMATE SECRET TO
" MADE APOLLO A SUCCESS ??? "
YOU CAN GO TO THE MOON WITH " DON'T SHY TO SPEAK SOMETHING OUT ??? "

Thanks for the review.

Please standardize your tests procedures across all multimeters. It will be easy for the audience to do comparisons.

Мультиметр ZOYI ZT-102L тоже такой плохой? И чем плохи такие маленькие предохранители?