EEVblog #75 – Digital Multimeter Buying Guide for Beginners

Who else in the industry can give you 52 solid minutes of beginner advice on buying a multimeter?
Dave of course!, who started out wanting to give some “quick” advice, but as usual Dave likes to rant…
So you get a feature-by-feature breakdown on what makes a good general purpose multimeter. It turns out there is a surprising amount of stuff to talk about on the humble multimeter.

The other video on meter counts & accuracy:

And this is what happens to cheap meters when you overload them:

5 Comments

  1. I really had no idea what I was shopping for. I just want to check the batteries on my game boy games and maybe some other simple continuity checks. Though I guess I still balled out a little more than I needed to. I just grabbed the Fluke 15B+

  2. This needs an update with latest round of cheap(er) multi meters. If you do one, please include Mastech MS8268 (or equivalent when you do it).

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