Question about buying a multimeter

I was thinking that several people were confused.

Mine does that when the battery gets low. So does my Fluke.

I suspect the HF meters also have fuses. What irritates me, is that the fuses are twelve bucks each. I can buy the glass car fuses for under a buck each, and the plastic push in fuses, also under a buck. However, with the Fluke meter, only a Fluke fuse will fit.

Having a fuse does not mean the meter won't explode on a high capacity circuit.

Glass fuses used in a car are probably rated 32V. The same size ceramic body fuses might be rated up to 250V. None of them have an adequate current interrupt capacity (for a short circuit). Buss FRN fuses are rated for circuits with a source current capacity of 200,000A. That is different from the fuse current rating, which might only be 20A. The source current capacity ("available fault current") for a house is probably 5,000-10,000A.

Fluke fuses are high interrupt capacity.

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:gr2esq$p5s$ snipped-for-privacy@news.motzarella.org:

I just opened up my HF DMM(no-backlight model),and it has a 5x20mm fuse.