Electrical Engineers ~ What multimeter do you use?

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Looking for a reliable multimeter to help me with my project.
What multimeter do you guys recommend?

I'm not looking for a £100 meter with all bells and whistle but I'm not looking for cheap ebay £5 rubbish.

Preferably around £30
 
We had this thread a week or so ago.

Fluke are the best, but very expensive. Farnell has a good range of prices on meters: I bought a Tenma one for about £35 and it's very good, auto ranging etc.
 
What do you want to multimeter for ?

Multimeters come in many shapes and forms - and can perform basic electrical tests right up to network testing and graph readouts (usually from £3 up to £2000)

A basic meter will cost about £20 if it's any good.
 
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I use Fluke these days, but also still have a ****** one I bought years ago, they have a few (depending on what you want it for) around the 30 quid mark that are good.
 
Stared out, so must be a competitor, cant see how at their prices :D

So as said try Farnell or other componant type companies
 
why would a Electrical Engineers be wanting to use a £30 Multimeter?

but to answer your question I only trust Fluke or Mega Instruments
 
I still use my twenty year old Fluke something or other. Not sure what model it is.
 
This question came up very recently.

Get the Amprobe AM-220 from Rapid for £25 plus delivery (out of stock at the moment).

You will be surprised how close the readings from a multimeter that costs a tenner compares to a Fluke.

Remember with multimeters what you pay for is more often than not build quality. Accuracy doesn't come into the picture unless you want to spend hundreds of pounds, even then you have to ask yourself do you really need that kind of accuracy.
 
I'm not an electrical engineer, but I have 1 Fluke, 1 Altec, and 8 £3 cheapy multimeters so I can monitor lots of things at once... The £3 cheapy ones work surprisingly well...
 
2StepSteve said:
This question came up very recently.

Get the Amprobe AM-220 from Rapid for £25 plus delivery (out of stock at the moment).

You will be surprised how close the readings from a multimeter that costs a tenner compares to a Fluke.

Remember with multimeters what you pay for is more often than not build quality. Accuracy doesn't come into the picture unless you want to spend hundreds of pounds, even then you have to ask yourself do you really need that kind of accuracy.
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How compact is it?
 
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