I watched a Fluke salesman throw a meter across the room and smack into the wall, full windup baseball pitch, picked it up, touched the terminals together and it beeped. He said"we build tough meters" I believed him. I keep an Ideal meter handy that I'll use for simple stuff, but if you need to know exactly what you have you can't beat a Fluke. I am disappointed that one of the leads shorted out, but that was after 10 years of damn near daily use.