I returned a Jaycar multimeter the other day cause it was a complete piece of fecal matter
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I thought it was a reasonable one as it was marked down from $79 to $59, BUT IT WAS,NT !!!.
And before you ask, Yes I pulled it apart and trust me, it wasn't worth a photo.
And it also suffered from a scratchy continuity buzzer but it seemed to work ok when testing traces, I think it's caused by poor conductivity on the test probes.
Dave, You my friend have ruined my life, I was perfectly happy living in the matrix believing that a multimeter is a multimeter is a multimeter but there you have it, you threw a bunch of red pills and a bucket of cold water at me and here i am sliding down the rabbit hole of multimeter's
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I have discovered however that if one need to do capacitor testing, even expensive multimeter's have a limited range. there must be only so much you can fit in one meter I suppose and therefore one would probably be better off purchasing a dedicated capacitance tester.
The one I sent back to Jaycar only measured to 100 uf, what's the good of that when even a hobbyist muck around with values much higher.
So my conclusion is that Dave is good,Dave is wise, have at the very least two meters and remember the word of confucius, He who bye's good quality tools cry,s once
, He who bye.s cheap stuff cry,s many times.
regards to all
Wal