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Wallace Gasiewicz:
I would get a small cheapo meter for starts, after using it for a while, figure out what you want in a fancier meter and then then put he cheapo one in your pocket for flea market forays.
The few bucks you spend will be well worth it as educational costs.
Add a cheap LCR Transistor tester and you are still under $50
I still use a cheap BSIDE daily.

The component ( diode, transistor, cap, inductance) meters like the BSIDE are so inexpensive and reasonably accurate that I would not worry about these functions on a multimeter.

james_s:

--- Quote from: Cwmdu on March 23, 2023, 08:07:07 am ---How is a multimeter more useful than a scope looking at a multivibrator and simple arduino circuits?

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A multimeter can check continuity, it can measure the value of resistors and in some cases capacitors, it can test diodes and transistors, it can measure supply voltage and current draw. A scope lets you see what the circuit is doing, but a multimeter aids construction and lets you check it out before you even power it up and then troubleshoot.

Back when I learned electronics scopes were very expensive, way out of reach of most hobbyists, they were very much specialist instruments back then, the holy grail, a bit like a good RF spectrum analyzer today. We got by without one, analog VOM, some LEDs, maybe a logic probe if we were lucky and a speaker or small audio amplifier, you don't really need a scope, but it's certainly nice to have and makes some things easier. It's just more specialized than a multimeter so it is useful for a narrower range of tasks.

n4u:
First multimeter have to be cheap, but cannot be crappy. You may buy ut33a+ or some aneng, because they are cheap, small and you may trow them into car if you swith to brymen / sanwa / fluke. 210e its fine - but "normal" meters are more convenient in use. You need to know what are you doing and what want you to do before you forgot about or blow somethink expensive (fuse costs more than chinese meter)

Pfriemler:

--- Quote from: BillyO on March 23, 2023, 01:54:21 am ---Give some consideration to the Kaiweets HT118E (that E is important!  The HT118A is not half the meter).

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Got an A similar one a few months ago, found it very useful but the „alarms“ (red backlight) while measuring >1A or >200V is annoing and useless, since there is no warning when the meter is at 230V mains in DC range. And I miss manual range selection. Simply Auto is a nogo for me. You wont get useful readings in some conditions.
I hope the E does it better…?

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