{"id":3205,"date":"2022-04-11T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T06:02:12","slug":"milindustral-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2022\/04\/11\/milindustral-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"Milindustral Fluke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ay9wFQAW19Y\">Why Are Fluke Multimeters So EXPENSIVE?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The answer may surprise you!<\/p>\n<p>A multimeter is a little handheld device for measuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cX4s-bxn4fs\">watts and amps and volts and ohms<\/a> and shit. (I&#8217;m caring about them right now because I&#8217;m caring about solar, and, well, fixing my kitchen.)<\/p>\n<p>For hardcore blue-collar boys, it sort of holds the same niche as a graphing calculator might for mostly white collar engineers. Or maybe an iPad, any more &#8230; even a fancy phone, for anyone more modern than me. <\/p>\n<p>For decades, the brand of multimeter called Fluke has been the one to covet. <\/p>\n<p>It costs two or three times more than even its best competitors, even though it&#8217;s not more capable, or durable, or pretty, and the company who makes them is going strong anyway. <\/p>\n<p>The answer to why is an object lesson in how empires begin to sag under their own sheer weight, and always have. <\/p>\n<p>We are of course on the cusp of learning personally all about some less theoretical aspects of the same phenomenon. <\/p>\n<p>But this &#8230; is not a political post. I&#8217;m waxing whimsical, see? Alright then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Are Fluke Multimeters So EXPENSIVE? The answer may surprise you! A multimeter is a little handheld device for measuring watts and amps and volts and ohms and shit. (I&#8217;m caring about them right now because I&#8217;m caring about solar, and, well, fixing my kitchen.) For hardcore blue-collar boys, it sort of holds the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}