Re: Advice on buying a Digital Multimeter needed

[Kim Wall <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

darren_karp2001 wrote:

> Any advice or recommendations?

Those cheapo ones Maplin like to sell for under 3 quid are worth every
penny.  They're cheap and nasty and probably wouldn't survive much
abuse, but given that they include batteries at that price they're
really not to be sneezed at.

I've got a couple of them in addition to my proper multimeter - one
lives in the car (and did a couple of months active service gaffer taped
to the dashboard while the Fiat Of The Apocalypse's alternator was
playing up), and the other one kicks around in my toolkit and comes in
handy for continuity testing[1] and odd moments when I want to measure
two things at once.


Kim.

[1] Sadly, they lack a beeper for the purpose, so you have to actually
look at the screen.