Maplin Multimeter: how to use?

[Dave Plowman]

Maplin WP94 - 3.99.

[Toby]

No it's a solid core wire covered in braid. It will extend horizontally about 300mm unsupported, but is flexible enough to be coiled or even to go in a jacket potato with the oven door shut properly with the meter on the worktop. (Yes I know, but it was new, I was curious)

If it is important that it should not touch the sides of the duct, it would be very easy to stick some cardboard or some such thing over the end. Or tape it to a stick.

[Dave Plowman]

And I'll bet the oven temperature was nowhere near what the probe said.

[IMM]

Commercial ductwork has temp sensing holes to insert the temp probes.

[Andy Hall]

Have a look at

are the ones that RS sells but I believe the manufacturer sells direct as well.

.andy

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[IMM]

Thanks.

[geoff]

In message , IMM writes

I only said that they do a budget multimeter, I was leaving it up to you to assess it's suitability for your requirement

You gave no indication of accuracy, sensitivity and other parameters which would help determine what your requirement is.

I have two of the CPC ones and they have both drifted well out of cal over time

[IMM]

I did say "good and cheap", not cheap and nasty. They are not like throw away power tools. They have to read correctly - throw away power tools drill correctly until they die.

[PoP]

Actually there are exceptions. I'm sure the Titanic was a quality ship, but it didn't manage to complete its maiden voyage due to a slight disagreement with a bit of ice.

Before now I have paid a premium price for a piece of equipment only to be disappointed at what I paid for. Conversely, I've bought something at the cheap and cheerful end of the spectrum and been very pleased.

Price isn't an absolute measure of quality.

PoP

[Dave Plowman]

A poor workman blames his tools...

[mike ring]

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The Titanic was built by professionals.

Noah's Ark was built by d-i-yers

mike r