Test Equipment Review

I tested the daylights out of this little meter!

Available HERE for under $10.00, this is an EXCELLENT low end multimeter for the price. Comes with leads and a battery, so it’s ready to go right out of the box.

DC Voltage scale from 0 to 1000 Volts (lowest scale 200 mV).
AC Voltage scale from 0 750 Volts (lowest scale 200 V).
DC Current scale from 0 to 10 Amps! (lowest scale 100uA)
Resistance scale from 0 ohms to 2 Mohms (lowest scale 200 Ohm)
Additional diode test function, capacitor test function, and hFE (transistor beta gain).
While rugged for the most part, it’s two weeknesses are:

1) It’s not very water proof (although it is water resistant)
2) Its LED doesn’t like physical shock (passed a 20′ ladder drop test, but failed the same test inside of a full toolbag).
3) While accurate under most conditions, when used at RF - the AC scales are not TRUE RMS.

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