..true RMS. It only works on sine waveforms anyway.Not clear what that is supposed to mean. True RMS works on all waveforms. It is meters which are not true RMS that give correct readings only on sine waveforms.
My recommendation would be any "no brand" one from a good electronics supplier (RS, Farnell, Mouser, Digikey...), NOT a no-brand from amazon, ebay, a Chinese discount supplier or a high street DIY store.
I'd suggest having autoranging, ideally with an option to switch to manual ranging if you need it.
You didn't mention in your initial post, but having ohms measurement is extremely useful, as well as continuity bleeping on this setting. And a capacitance measure can be useful too, although not often hugely accurate, it still helsp check what order of magnitude capacitances in a circuit are (capacitors in anything you are repairing are usually not labelled the way SMD resistors sometimes are, you have to measure them).
I find myself using ohms far more often than anything else, volts sometimes and amps only pretty rarely.
The price range will probably be £40 to £70 or so.
In USA Harbour freight has a red DVM, basic but many nice features, pitfalls is just 2 ACV ranges...
$5..7 ,sometimes free with a coupon and other purchases
Got 10, give as gifts, for travel, etc
Jon
My advice is too buy a cheap multimeter like this one (Aneng AN8008) which is listed for 24 $
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33001360039.html
In USA Harbour freight has a red DVM, basic but many nice features, pitfalls is just 2 ACV ranges...
$5..7 ,sometimes free with a coupon and other purchases
Got 10, give as gifts, for travel, etc
Jon
200 and 250V for mains.
As recently as ten years ago, perhaps five I would have wanted a VOM/multimeter that provided things like capacitance and transistor checking. But today there are very inexpensive component checkers that do a fairly good job of checking resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors, diodes, and often other individual components. You don't even need to tell them what kind of component is being tested, just hook it up and push the button and read the results. After I tried one, I purchased a second one for my other electronic workbench. They only cost around 15 or 20 USD. And I haven't seen them fail yet.
I am also looking for a new DMM but am concentrating on the ranges available and the accuracy, not the component checking ability. The only exception to that is the resistance scales which I still believe will be very useful.
Much is said here about true RMS. Here is my take on that.
I worked as a full time, professional in the electronics field for over 45 years and do more work now in my retirement. My work included routing maintenance, repairs, and design and construction. In all of that time I never once had an actual need for a true RMS measurement. Perhaps it may have been nice to know on a very few occasions, but it almost never even entered my mind. When I needed a better understanding of what was going on in a wire or cable, I reached for an oscilloscope. It was that simple:an average reading VOM or a scope.
My advice is, unless you have a definite and KNOWN need for true RMS measurements, do not worry about that feature in a meter. Other features are much more important from a practical use point of view. Accuracy, a fast acting analog like scale, auto-ranging, ease of use, safety, the number of features, and even ruggedness are far more important in my humble opinion.
As for the current emphasis on "true RMS" measurements I can only speculate that with the constant improvements in digital ICs, a much less expensive method has come into common use and the manufacturers are making the most of it. But it is strange that I do not see any of them talking about the uses of that feature.
If you are starting in electronics, you will not stop at one multimeter.
Very soon, you will feel the need for a second one. So dont think that you are buying the device of your life.
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But you can consider it as your first meter, and it will last you a long time, even if afterwards you buy a second one, you will still use this one, as it as also the advantage to be small.
Questin for the OP: From which shops are you being able to order that charge decent shipping costs?
Does UAE ship to Israel?
If so, shipping might be cheaper than to my location and the Greenlee DM-200A is a Brymen BM251 and of quite decent quality.
eBay auction: #285033915626
For the testingster store you linked, I would suspect fraud. Selling actual Fluke DMMs for a third of the price is... questionable.
At amazon, putting israel as receiver, I get only a few brand names that I would recognize, some of them are clearly relabellers like Aneng or Kaiweets.
Good bets in the sub-75$ range are IMHO: Fluke 101 (but no Amp measurements), Uni-T 139 B or C, Uni-T 61B+
For beginning, the Fluke has a proven track record being safe and reliable, if you are a bit more into features (and do not do Amps measurements at mains voltages) a Uni-T meter could also be some nice tool to begin. Other forum members should have some hands-on experience on those. And the difference to the import limit might be invested in better test leads or hooks etc. that help with working.