Please don't. Those are really, really crap and potentially dangerous.
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Multimeters
- Thread starter dan77714
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Please don't. Those are really, really crap and potentially dangerous.
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As said many times, it's down to what you're doing with a multimeter.
I'm a Plumber/Heating Engineer & have three;
1) A very cheap one (£4), that I keep in my tool bag, that's used for a quick test of basic stuff & if I drop it or stand on it, then it's only 4 quid.
2) An autorange cheap one(£40), that I carry in my boiler repairs tool box, it's fine for most stuff I'll come across, boiler repairs, central heating controls repairs etc. I'd recommend autorange multimeters if your going to be working in dark holes with only one pair of hands.
3) A Fluke 116, that's the dogs danglers for my game.
If you're going to be using any of them for high current readings, forget cheap ones, the good ones can only handle about 10Amps.
The £40 ones will be good enough for most DIY jobs.
230V CAN KILL YOU!!!
I'm a Plumber/Heating Engineer & have three;
1) A very cheap one (£4), that I keep in my tool bag, that's used for a quick test of basic stuff & if I drop it or stand on it, then it's only 4 quid.
2) An autorange cheap one(£40), that I carry in my boiler repairs tool box, it's fine for most stuff I'll come across, boiler repairs, central heating controls repairs etc. I'd recommend autorange multimeters if your going to be working in dark holes with only one pair of hands.
3) A Fluke 116, that's the dogs danglers for my game.
If you're going to be using any of them for high current readings, forget cheap ones, the good ones can only handle about 10Amps.
The £40 ones will be good enough for most DIY jobs.
230V CAN KILL YOU!!!
Somebody on site yesterday with a cheap meter. Voltage readings totally wrong. It was giving DC reading as AC. Whilst voltage levels were in the 'safe zone' it could have been a very expensive error to resolve if we hadn't checked with a decent meter.
Worse still, imagine if we had been testing mains cables.
Worse still, imagine if we had been testing mains cables.
I'd say forget anything except a clamp meter.
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