Multimeter

The angle of the dangle is equal to the heat of the beat when the throb of the knob is constant.

Right. Never seen a Fluke like that.

I doubt I could be bothered since most DVMs (and my Fluke) measure current too.

Can it do ESR and "count" frequency?

No, I've got a teenager doing A level physics for that!

(Fluke fuses are over a tenner a pop)

Get several. Upgrade as you need new features. Start cheap. Finish with a Fluke (about 25-30 S/H on eBay)

Do try to get one with real sockets and a decent set of cables though. It's very useful to have both prods and croc clips easily available.

A while back I bought myself enough of megger to do PAT testing with. No idea why I bought this, as it cost 30-40 eBay quid and I already have a stupidly expensive Kewtech tester of everything (with cal papers too). However I now use this for pretty much all of my bench & DIY electrics. Does voltage and moderately low resistance too, which is 99% of everything I ever use a DVM for. As it also proves out scrap washing motors etc as vaguely safe or provably hazardous, it was money well spent.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote on Aug 26, 2012:

I'd guess.

It does frequency, yes. I have a separate ESR meter. I'd admit to not having seen an ESR function on a DVM, although I suppose it is possible.

If you can't get IPA, would any best bitter do?

Once another form at school (GCSE chemistry) were doing a practical where they were coating keys etc in copper by electrolysis. The instructions they followed were by a teacher without a clue how to measure current. Cue 28 fuses needing replacement! I think they were the ordinary glass type, but it still took a physics teacher and technician ages to change them.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote on Aug 27, 2012:

The current replacement, Fluke 114 "Electricians¹s Multimeter" also does not have current ranges BTW.

In message , Mike Lane writes

Was that pun deliberate?

En el artículo , David WE Roberts escribió:

There's two sorts of IPA. One is eminently quaffable, the other isn't.

Quite. Why would an electrician ever need to measure current? ;-)

Oh so it's not realy made for use as a door stop, but it works so well .....

I've had that, last year I replaced something like 25 20mm 250ma fuses in = our stock DMMs. =A311

But my prefered cheap meter is....=A318

Doesn't matter. Multimeter fuses are super-fast. One reason they're so expensive.

I don't think that's true, certainly the ones I've used aren't super fast i= n fact They might be more expensive becuase of supply and demand. The fuses I've used to replace the ones in the 328 meter=20