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Is there a multimeter designed for tool belt use?
indman:
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on November 12, 2024, 07:13:04 am ---This came up recently during a debate over how many hands you need to handle a multimeter while up a ladder with a tool belt (probably three in most cases). Apart from some large and pretty pricey meggers, are there any multimeters that have the display on the end or side so you can read them when looking down onto a tool belt? Doesn't have to be at all fancy, in fact given its intended use cheap and easily replaced if dropped would be good, it just needs to read volts and ohms/continuity for checking wiring without having to pull it out of the tool belt to see the display.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/226144369859 :)
Photos of the internal world of this multimeter were taken by me. A good inexpensive compact multimeter with large numbers on the display. ;)
5U4GB:
Interesting, thanks! I hadn't considered that way of mounting it, that'd work too, and it has clips for the leads and shrouded sockets for the grabber-clip cables I'm using. lygte-info has a review, it's good enough for what I need (low voltages, resistance, continuity), and it looks like BTMeter will ship anywhere (the eBay store is US-only).
indman:
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on November 12, 2024, 12:45:16 pm ---lygte-info has a review,
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Please note that this model may have different fillings inside the box. In my version, there is a DMM chip in a normal case and there is an external memory chip for calibration. In the lygte-info version, another drop chip is installed and there is no external memory. ;)
RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on November 12, 2024, 07:13:04 am ---are there any multimeters that have the display on the end or side so you can read them when looking down onto a tool belt? Doesn't have to be at all fancy
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Metrix mtx3283 made in France by Chauvin Arnoux. It's quite fancy for a DMM of that year, 100 000 counts, PC connectivity, chart display, recording, and made for rugged use.
Specs flyer here: https://archive.org/details/manuallib-id-2592819/mode/2up
Kean:
--- Quote from: 5U4GB on November 12, 2024, 10:50:30 am ---After some trial and error the magic search term seems to be "desktop multimeter", e.g. this or this, modded as per the pen-type meter. The "Atuo-ranging" one is 96x45mm which is probably about as compact as you can get while leaving room for a display and controls, so that might do it (although I'm not keen on atuo-ranging meters in general).
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Hmmm...
The ToolTop thing looks like crap, small, but thickkkk. The screen must be tiny if those dimension are right.
The Bside one may not be too bad, but it is expensive, and the screen is probably not great outdoors.
Maybe look at the Aneng 613. I'd choose it over the ToolTop at a similar price point. I actually quite like my Aneng AN8008.
Aneng isn't a brand I'd recommend for mains testing, but that model does have a better CAT rating that the other two (CAT III or IV 600V vs CAT II 600V).
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