When you are free, please suggest me a multimeter with most of the features a hobbyist would need and is very cheap...
What is your definition of cheap? I have the UT61E (~50€) and i am quite satisfied satisfied with it.
Do you have other measurement equipment to check for faults?
I'm mainly into power electronics.. dealing with voltages upto 400v max.
My definition for cheap is maximum robustness ( robust for common tasks ), have so many functionality yet cost is less than other metres which do these tasks.
Normally I have 3 metres
1) UT33D
2)DT830D ( crap meter bought this for current measurements when my Uni-T blown) it is for dc current
3)MTQ666 AC clamp meter. (Mainly uses it for measuring high voltages and ac current)
Normally in the past I used all crap dt830d meters. Sometimes when probing something the meter will blow off.. At last I was fed up and found eev blog. And saw that Uni-T is more robust and safe than dt830D. So bought which a Uni-T which is available locally and is in my budget.
Now what are the down sides I see with Uni-T meter I have is it don't have a hrc fuse, and fast blow glass fuses which people sell locally here are not fast at all.
I have seen this video
https://youtu.be/cB0K5p7CgtEUni t did not do well in that test and he was able to blow the chipset. That makes it not repairable.
Now I'm going for fluke 115 which is not good for micro amp measurements.. It is beyond my budget but if I try harder and save money, might be able to buy one. [emoji39]
In that video he told it's very robust. So in my use case sinario it might not fail at all..
I have experienced mutimeters blown into flames.. this happend when I was making a Tesla coil transformer and was probing the primary, it was roughly 200-300v but when I was away the meter burst into flames...
I need to measure micro amps so for that I might make a circuit which converts ua to something like Milli volts.
Thanks all for your support [emoji1]