Found myself in need of another DMM for the bench and while I have proper bench DMM they are not always as versatile as handheld ones which have other useful features on them.
I came across the one on this site
https://www.banggood.com/BSIDE-ADM08A-6000-Counts-True-RMS-Digital-Multimeter-p-1071663.html?rmmds=category and thought that looked reasonable for the money as it is never going to be used on high energy circuits so I ordered it.
I won’t go over bits and bobs that you can see on the above link, instead I want to mention what I discovered when I stripped it down for a squiz at the internals as far the protection and safety seeing as there are plenty of threads discussing the safety issues etc.
After struggling to remove the outer bumper 4 screws became visible, 1 in each corner on the bottom, these are self-tapping screws as the bottom is not normally expected to be removed that often so it was an obvious area for savings to be made. They have made a really good attempt at keeping any flash and blast blown debris in the event of the meter being mis-used and having a current range whacked across a high energy source such as the 230v mains supply, within the meter casing.
The input sockets look like they are opened but closer inspection shows that the bottom has a well for each input jack so that when the casing is correctly screwed together, seals the jacks off so each one becomes self-contained, nice touch. There is evidence of overload protection n the PCB as well, well away from the 20A current shunt as are the fuses which are 250v HRC as well, none of the glass rubbish. PCB looks to be well laid out in the bottom half with most of the components in the top half of it.
Once reassembled and the bumper refitted it really does look to be a reasonably protected meter should the unthinkable happen. It has a really useful stand as well, sturdy enough to allow the meter to be operated single handed. The thing that attracted me to it was the fact that it has a non-contact voltage detector built into it and also a single probe voltage detector to enable conformation that the live connection has been disconnected prior to working on mains systems.
Has a capacitor range up to 6 farads according to the spec sheet and 60M ohms which 40M more than most DMM and analogue ones for that matter.
The continuity tester seems to work really well and in testing I could not get to miss once and so far the weakest link with this meter is the really cheap leads come with it, they are really stiff and not ideal for poking about in equipment. I have already replaced these with some other far better silicon leads which also came from Banggood and have also impressed me with their quality.