Review on Enhanced Fluke T6 1000 with FieldSense Technology for Electrical Applications by Fisseha Rodgers

Reviewers who claim you'll be shocked by this shouldn't use a meter or even mess around with electricity at all absolutely ridiculous. To my actual assessment. I use this 100 times a day, every day, so I've had plenty of time to familiarize myself with it on everything from 3 volts to 480 3 phase. The field sensor's voltage measurement was a key selling point for me, oddly enough I found it a useless feature after using it. I just use my Fluke 1AC-A II VoltAlert more effectively. To be honest I suppose someone can use it. In my job, I just need to know if there is voltage, or I need to read the combined voltage at more than one point. The voltage on a wire doesn't tell me much. It's not entirely accurate either, when in use it can tell me 139VAC on the wire and when I use the sensors I actually get a reading on the same 119VAC wire. If you are testing devices for 208VAC it will not read 208V, it will still only read 120VAC with one wire. If they could make it so I could feel a full 208VAC on a heater wire for example, that feature would be a game changer, but at least it's not useless to me. I used my old T5-600. For so many years that it feels like a natural part of my body to carry it in my back pocket, the new T6-600 is a bit thicker and takes some getting used to, the plastic itself doesn't seem as durable as the old T5-600, that has withstood years of abuse and falls from the stairs. The new one didn't break, but it just doesn't feel as solid. The field amperage reading works great, as it always did with the old T5-600, and I'd probably send it back and just use my trusty T5-600 if it weren't for the backlit display on this new T6-600, which is a much-needed feature T5-600 sorely lacked. My conclusion: If the old T5-600 had a backlit display, I would say you have a win-win choice of buying the T5-600. The new T6-600's field measurement function is clearly not a very useful gimmick unless you can use it to read actual voltages on a single wire of 208, 240 and 480 VAC. I could actually use this function to know when the thermostat is turning on and off in the 208VAC heating element circuit without removing the wire nuts as that's a useless gimmick now.