Recommend me a multimeter.

[4String.]

As per the title.

My 40 year old Gunson that's been a real trooper has finally died so I could do with a replacement and it's purely for home use so I don't need anything that invokes the Yorkshire Warcry .

Much thanks.

 

[MattF]

Nip into Aldi & see if they still have any knocking about.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Cheep, but reliable, Draper. If using every now and then.
If using everyday, Fluke.

 

[pawsnizzy]

Fluke all day

 

[Brad93]

Fluke

 

[tom2207]

fluke , used to be able to get old 27s at humble money off flea bay

 

[Robotstar5]

Fluke

 

[Memmeddu]

I would say Fluke 117
But you'll probably be satisfied with an 50 ish euros one

 

[James1979]

Fluke in workshop

I have a taskmaster by Sealey in the truck. Does temp, dwell angle, and a few other things as well as the usual.
Can’t remember how much but it was to keep on the truck so wouldn’t have been expensive

 

[Ubique]

Whatever you get has to be reliable and accurate - otherwise it's just a waste of money at best and potentially dangerous at worst.
If it's just for a bit of poking around at home, billy-basic testing, then something like a Fluke T130. If you want to start measuring things, then start at Fluke T5 or T6-1000. From there, it depends on what bias you want, power electricals, then Fluke 117, industrial automation, then Fluke 28, 87 or similar. If you need to see lots of things at the same time, look at the FC series stuff. I have a collection of FC modules and a FC3000 - but all of that will be beyond what you want, as otherwise you wouldn't be asking.
If you intend to use it for current measurement, be absolutely sure your test leads & probes are up to it. Or use a current clamp

 

[optima21]

for basic hobby use, I use Aneng M118A mutimeters

£10 from ebay

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I recently got 2 for £15 from aliexpress

 

[hermetic]

I have several AVO meters 2 mk8's and a lightweight GPO model, if they ever go wrong they are simple to fault find and all the service manuals ore online, built like a tank with good quality rotary switches and not a carbon resistor in sight, plenty of protection for the operator, alternately, remember the old electricians adage " If you get the right reading, it's bound to be a fluke"! Read it any way you want...........................
Phil

 

[James1979]

I also use this one. More than you would think. Russian from an army surplus back in the 80’s

In Russia you do not measure voltage. Voltage measure you.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

I've been using my uni-t one for over 10 years and it's never let me down, can't justify a fluke for how often I use it.

 

[MetalMonkey]

If you want a high quality meter at a reasonable price consider Brymen, they are well featured and well regarded. Uni-T are also pretty good and economical.

 

[Barking Mat]

Nowt wrong with a Lidl multimeter.

 

[hermetic]

You can learn a lot more from a needle on a scale than you can from an LCD display, especially if the reading is constantly changing, but moving coil meters cost a fortune to make, where as LCD's cost peanuts, funny how the meters carried on going up in price innit? The final nail in the coffin of the analogue AVO was the escalating cost of the meters, and the wirewound resistor company that supplied them ceased production.

 

[Hood]

Depends what you want it for, if just very basic fault finding then probably one of the dirt cheap ones from, well, anyplace, just make sure it has the buzzer function for continuity as that is handy and some don't have it.
If doing more critical stuff then you need to spend a bit more and then the choice becomes a bit more complicated.

 

[4String.]

Thanks for all the replies.

Had a look at Fluke but the price of them caused this:



For the amount of times I'll use one there's no way I can justify that sort of outlay so I've sold my soul to Satan (yet again...) and bought a cheaper one from Amazon.

 

[mike os]

When I used them daily it was megger or fluke, my current one is an rs pro, about £100