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Looking for help selecting a budget multi-meter. I'm quite overwhelmed.
Lee Leduc:
The Southwire brand sold at Lowes are popular with the local makers groups were I live. I've used a couple and they seemed well made and accurate. Here's the webpage for them http://www.southwiretools.com/tools/categories/test-and-measurement#multimeters
They are most likely a rebranded OEM product. If anyone knows these meters maybe they can tells us who the OEM is.
windsmurf:
--- Quote from: Lee Leduc on May 15, 2019, 02:27:34 pm ---The Southwire brand sold at Lowes are popular with the local makers groups were I live. I've used a couple and they seemed well made and accurate. Here's the webpage for them http://www.southwiretools.com/tools/categories/test-and-measurement#multimeters
They are most likely a rebranded OEM product. If anyone knows these meters maybe they can tells us who the OEM is.
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Southwire looks like CEM's products... not very well regarded due to quality issues...
Shock:
--- Quote from: BoredSysAdm on May 15, 2019, 01:20:15 pm ---Well, after long enough consideration I've decided to go with Uni-T UT61E. Yes, a backlight would be nice to have, but I think there are mods for that.
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Congrats. I have plenty of multimeters without backlights, it's not a big deal if you have decent lighting. The meter could however do with a nice set of Probemasters probes. I own 3 Uni-T multimeters, I replaced mine with Fluke but Probemasters are the way to go, you will notice the difference.
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