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Cheap Multimeters, not even twice

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It has taken me 4 crap multimeters to realize that cheap ones are kinda terrible. 1st meter I had was a 5 dollar pocket meter, it overestimated voltage, not drastically, but sill inaccurate. For some fun I tried to kill it by measuring the max current from a drill battery, maxed out at 90 amps and melted the wires :eg::eg::eg:

My second and third meter were the generic cheap yellow meters for 16 dollars each, one of them measured a charged lithium cell that had sit for a while at 4.4v and the other at 4.35, at the time I though that my cells were going to explode, which they didn't.

Now for my current meter (not electrical current :p), which I got from DX for 25 dollars, it measures accurately, has capacitance measurement, looks fancy and... the display wont work unless you put external pressure on the case. I fixed it with state of the art shoelace and lego block technology.

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This is what it looks like without my high tech modification

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With cheap meters, expect what you pay for... unless its free :D
 





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lol @ state of the art shoelace and lego block technology. Must be a bad connection on the board.
 
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I'm glad I'm not a cheap multimeter in your home - burnt, lego brick in face! Multimeters behave or end up in multimeter hell hosted by 3Pig! :evil:
 

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I feel your pain..... although I sill ended up buying a cheap Innova 3320 for $10 yesterday at the pawn shop. One day I'll spend decent money on a Fluke or something. Nice Lego trick by the way, made my night. :thanks:
 

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lol @ state of the art shoelace and lego block technology. Must be a bad connection on the board.

Yeah I thought that too, its a shame that a pretty decent meter is let down by poor quality control.

I'm glad I'm not a cheap multimeter in your home - burnt, lego brick in face! Multimeters behave or end up in multimeter hell hosted by 3Pig! :evil:

They deserve it :eg:

I feel your pain..... although I sill ended up buying a cheap Innova 3320 for $10 yesterday at the pawn shop. One day I'll spend decent money on a Fluke or something. Nice Lego trick by the way, made my night. :thanks:

You might end up with a pretty good meter, good deal too. The fluke meters are really nice and their price tag reflects that.
 

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I found a Fluke today at a pawn shop for $35. I am very tempted to buy it, but I think I may hold off. Killer deal nonetheless.
 




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