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What was your first multimeter or voltmeter?
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Kozmyk:
Too far back to remember ...
I have a vague memory of a cheapo from Marks electrical shop. Cardiff circa 1965.

It was a long time before I got an Avo 8.

I had a baby Micronta that I took in my backpack when I went to India.
That basic toolkit (all had to fit in one rucksack pocket) got me introductions to all kinds of interesting people along my journey.
A millionaire, an embassy guard, a gangster and more.


Neilm:
My fist was a very cheap multimeter bought in the market when I started a serious interest in Electronics.

It had a glass fuse, a transistor tester connected to the terminal inputs and many other things not allowed by IEC61010. For a laugh, just after I started my current job I took it to work and tested it as it claimed it was CATII. The explosion was fairly impressive.

Neil

Anders:
An old AVO 8 that someone had dropped, I got it for free and glued it back together.  ;)
deephaven:
In 1960 when I was 10 I had one of these.

PStevenson:

when I was a boy of 8 my dad bought a Maplin Precision Gold meter, it has a beautiful leather case and I wanted it for my own so I hatched a plan. I would wait for a year so that the guarantee would run out and then disable it in a manner that he wouldn't be able to figure out - his electronics knowledge extends to "if it's broke and the fuse is okay, it's buggered forever"

so the day after the guarantee ran out (it was in my diary!) I located a resistor that was part of a DC to DC converter from the battery to the meter and snipped it with my side cutters halfway up the resistor leg (yes I was a very nerdy 9 year old) so the meter would not function. then the flaw in my plan emerged, I would have to wait for an occasion for him to use it to discover it didn't work. so I took the plug on the TV apart and removed the fuse, shorted it across my trainset power supply to blow it, then I put it back into the TV's plug (in the UK the fuse is in the plug)

so of course he found out it was broken and I ended up with it "to take apart" so once he had gotten a new one I soldered the resistor back together (yes, I did have a soldering iron at the age of 9!)  which meant I had my first multimeter and I still have it to this day!
it's funny, I actually owned an oscilloscope before a multimeter - didn't have a clue how to use it of course, some weird guy who lived on my road gave it me to take apart but it worked - well it turned on but thats a story for another day I think.
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