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| Auggie:
What do you all recommend as a good multimeter that will help me in my Electrical Engineering major? I noticed in Daves reviews that there are multimeter s designed for different professions like some specifically for electricians and some for electronics. I was thinking of investing in a fluke 87. So any suggestions let me know. |
| EEVblog:
The question is how much do you want to spend? You can get a decent meter that will do the job for say $50. In another thread on here someone got the Amprobe 38XR for $65 or something, a bargain. Dave. |
| rossmoffett:
I have an 87 now and it's nice, but I got through my electronics classes with a very cheap multimeter that didn't measure microamps. I used resistors to find my current, by taking the voltage across them. Still not ideal, but you'll find accuracy is not as important as knowing what you're doing in a university lab. I've been amazed at the grades I got for failed projects simply for thoroughly documenting what went wrong, why and what could be done to fix the situation. |
| Simon:
well I suppose it's one thing to get it right and another to get it wrong, figure out the problem and know how to get it right next time |
| Neilm:
If you get it right first time you will not learn anything. It is after fouling up and debugging you begin to understand. (says the guy who spent best part of a week trying to debug a circuit where he swapped the input and feedback resistors on an op-amp) |
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