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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
), 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.
This is what it looks like without my high tech modification
With cheap meters, expect what you pay for... unless its free
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
), 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.
This is what it looks like without my high tech modification
With cheap meters, expect what you pay for... unless its free
