Staple balls
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| posted on 12/4/09 at 05:51 PM |
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Multimeter
My utterly crap 5 quid multimeter has failed me, again, cables keep breaking off from the probes.
Anyway, I figure it's about time I treated myself to a half decent multimeter.
Any suggestions, Ideally for less than £50-ish?
Cheers.
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fatfranky
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| posted on 12/4/09 at 06:03 PM |
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Haven't a clue as to the best place to get one, but it may help if you state what type of meter you want.
eg an automotive one that does, dwell, tacho and some basic electronic functions.
Or an electronic one that does volts amps, resistance etc. usually in different ranges
I'm sure someone will be along soon that knows the best places.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 12/4/09 at 06:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Staple balls
My utterly crap 5 quid multimeter has failed me, again, cables keep breaking off from the probes.
Anyway, I figure it's about time I treated myself to a half decent multimeter.
Any suggestions, Ideally for less than £50-ish?
Cheers.
These days you would be a fool to spend that much on a DMM if you want it for car and household use you won't need functions like transistor
testing and capacitance mesurement, all that really matter is the quality of the leads and if the case will withstand a "drop test". £25
pounds will buy you a decent meter.
I can highly recommend Chinese made Uni-T meters the UNI-T UT203 AC / DC clamp current Digital MultiMeter is worth buying -- very well made.
NB UT203 --- easily confused with the UT201 sold by Maplin which is AC clamp only.
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rayward
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| posted on 12/4/09 at 06:06 PM |
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have a look for a fluke 114 series on ebay, they go for around £50+post,
or if you dont mind s/hand fluke 87 series
hth
Ray
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Staple balls
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| posted on 12/4/09 at 06:06 PM |
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Good point, looking for an eletronicy one really. Don't need anything massively feature-rich either, sturdy and reliable is good.
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Staple balls
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| posted on 12/4/09 at 06:14 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
These days you would be a fool to spend that much on a DMM if you want it for car and household use you won't need functions like transistor
testing and capacitance mesurement, all that really matter is the quality of the leads and if the case will withstand a "drop test". £25
pounds will buy you a decent meter.
I do find the extra features pretty handy, I do a bit of electronics, so they're nice to have, even if they don't get a huge amount of
use.
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trextr7monkey
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| posted on 12/4/09 at 07:39 PM |
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We buy for work from Rapid Electronics but one of the mags did a review recently and as usual the winner was made by one firm with about 4 different
labels on - Draper Sealey etc in the end it was down to where ever it could be purchased most reasonably, not sure if this gives you a definitive
answer - I'll hunt the mag out after dinner if I can find it 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14016102@N00/ (cut and paste this dodgey link)
Our most recent pics are here:
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/trextr7monkey/
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cliftyhanger
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| posted on 13/4/09 at 06:48 AM |
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Or if it is just the probes, pop into maplin (or somewhere better)and buy some decent ones.
I have a few of those cheapo ones, handy as I can usually find one of them.
Also found it handy to have a long earth lead with a croc clip.
But my favorite tester is a £1 one. Lead with croc clip, the other end a probe thing with a bulb in it. Simple and effective for most car stuff.
Clive
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