Recommend me a decent multimeter please

[mik]

I've been using one of these for ever. Even to someone with only a barely rudimentary understanding of electrickery - it's pretty crap - and the LCD display now shows some fairly significant screen bleed.



(Annoyingly, I gave my dad a really nice Fluke meter some years ago (as he was properly trained and could actually use it), but I couldn't find it bloody anywhere when he passed away.

So recommend me a multimeter please. One with both probes and croc clips ideally. I will only use it a couple of times a year and only need rudimentary functionality - I just want one that isn't completely crap. For these reasons my brain tells me that I'm not spending more than a completely arbitrary £35.

[Jobbo]

I have used one of those for ages. I only bought a replacement because one of the wires is nicked and has a dodgy connection. So I have a pristine, unused new one which should be much better and I’m sure falls in your budget while I muddle through with the old one

Edit: found the order - bought it in May 2022 and it is this one - https://amzn.eu/d/8AEzBdA

[Sundayjumper]

I have a Sealey TM100. Seems to be fine. £40-ish.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185687986174

I've also recently added a small oscilloscope (similar form factor) because I wanted to check the waveform being applied to the dash illumination, but then it started working again so I've not actually used the 'scope function in anger yet.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355617717042

It looks pretty

[jamcg]

I normally get fluke or martindale for my electrical testing needs

However my multimeter is a £5 jobby from a car boot sale that’s been a reliable tool for a few years, no idea what brand it is. Hope this helps. Xx

[Beany]

I've got a UNI-T UT210D clamp meter, which has been fine for the intermittent tat I do.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0753FY711/ref=pe_2 ... 11_TE_dp_1

I do quite like the idea of one of those ones with a scope built in.

I've just been having a look for the UniT and I can't find it to hand so maybe that's a sign for me to buy one...

[mik]

I've got a UNI-T UT210D clamp meter, which has been fine for the intermittent tat I do.

Maybe I should have said - I also have a clamp ammeter thingy click which is fine.

[mik]

I have a Sealey TM100. Seems to be fine. £40-ish.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185687986174

Looks like a decent shout. Does it do anything that this one doesn’t?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183952084427

Or this one?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185995211023

[Simon]

I got a Kaiweets - well reviewed when I got it and has done me well:

https://kaiweets.com/en-gb/products/ht1 ... multimeter

[Delphi]

I bought this from Amazon a few years ago. Seems to meet your criteria and it's been bob on for helping me fix various electrical gremlins in the 928.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1

[Sundayjumper]

Does it do anything that this one doesn’t?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183952084427

Or this one?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185995211023

That first one has quite a small screen. Big screen easier to read. None of us are getting any younger

The second one looks like it covers everything.

What do you actually need ? I rarely use it for anything other than checking if something is 12V (or up to ~15V, I guess), and continuity.

[mik]

The second one looks like it covers everything.

What do you actually need ? I rarely use it for anything other than checking if something is 12V (or up to ~15V, I guess), and continuity.

Pretty much that. So I think I’ll probably just get the £20 draper. Although…. I watched a vid on the Kaiweets one that Simon has and it does appear to have a few cool features. 17% discount so £34….

[mik]

Although…. I watched a vid on the Kaiweets one that Simon has and it does appear to have a few cool features. 17% discount so £34….

OK - that’s what I did.

@Simon and I are now multimeter fwends.

Thanks all

[Simon]

Awesum. Glad you picked it. You won't be disappointed.

[mik]

@Simon Cheers for the recommendation - took a while to arrive, but the display is excellent (I've already managed to change the temperature probe display to swap DegC to be the larger of the two readouts by default), it feels pretty chunky/solid, and the standard probes are good. I think I'd prefer the backlight to be on by default, but I'm not sure I can do that?

Feels a little like I've bought a unimog to pop to the shops in, but after owning an ultra-basic crapola-meter for decades, I'm OK with that (as it was far from £silly).

This is such a simple, but brilliantly idiot-proofing feature. (As is the backlight turning red whenever you are dealing with any dangerous-to-human voltage - even if you are just using the non-contact body probe to sense whether a cable is live).

[Simon]

Glad you like it @mik, money well spent! I love the fact that it illuminates which sockets to plug the probes into based on which selection reading you do.

A new multi-pack of leads/and clips is on my radar - at some point I'll find an excuse to buy them.

BTW, how do you do the degC change that you mention? Is that in the manual?

Not sure about having the backlight on all the time - I think that's a battery saving feature...

[mik]

BTW, how do you do the degC change that you mention? Is that in the manual?

Video moves fast, but you can watch it a few times before you try..... effectively you are 1/putting it into setup mode, and then 2/changing the temp default.



I paid an extra tenner to get the "HT01" lead set as I really wanted some croc clips, and this set offered more (thumb-lock hook things, and a pair of 1m probe extension leads) for barely any extra squids. The plugs on all of these leads are tight however.

[Simon]

Ah, nice, thanks. Now I just need an excuse to go measure some temps!