Digital Multimeter LCD Screen With Test Leads £2.99 Delivered @ Amazon Marketplace (Electro Market)

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  shauneco1 year, 3 months ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  Got one, Works a treat, £2.99 ffs, Bargain obviously not for an hardcore electrician but for most an excellent companion in their toolbox.
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  LordLardy1 year, 3 months ago1 Like #2Show comment toolsReply

  Do I really want to electrocute myself with this? I'd spend a bit more and get something better rather than risking it. Good price if you know what you are getting. :p
  
  

  
  Edited By: LordLardy on Feb 22, 2012 15:49
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  Alinshearah1 year, 3 months ago4 Likes #3Show comment toolsReply

  LordLardy

  Do I really want to electrocute myself with this? I'd spend a bit more and get something better rather than risking it. Good price if you know what you are getting. :p
  
  

  
  do you think it will be 'volty'
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  arduino1 year, 3 months ago5 Likes #4Show comment toolsReply

  Pay a little extra and get one with audible continuity testing. You won't regret it.
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  scrapsnz1 year, 3 months ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  Used on my motorbike solved a few problems worth the few £
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  Ellis4561 year, 3 months ago2 Likes #6Show comment toolsReply

  arduino

  Pay a little extra and get one with audible continuity testing. You won't regret it.

  
  
  Ive had mine without continuity for a few weeks now and yes now I want one with continuity!, so yea you buy twice. :(
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  stamfordblue1 year, 3 months ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  LordLardy

  Do I really want to electrocute myself with this? I'd spend a bit more and get something better rather than risking it. Good price if you know what you are getting. :p
  
  

  
  
  Got a similar one and still here to tell the tale.
  Used it on PC PSU,CD, & Sat pcbs without any hint of electrocution!
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  So Solid Jedi1 year, 3 months ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  I have a simliar one, got it from maplins ages ago, but paid more than this so heat from me.
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  118luke1 year, 3 months ago1 Like #9Show comment toolsReply

  Sigh, Im getting tired of voting cold on these death traps. If you have any sense (and a will to live) then avoid like the plague. Unless of course, you're never going to expose these units to mains electricity and stick to low voltage tests like 12v car batteries..
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  Ellis4561 year, 3 months ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  118luke

  Sigh, Im getting tired of voting cold on these death traps. If you have any sense (and a will to live) then avoid like the plague. Unless of course, you're never going to expose these units to mains electricity and stick to low voltage tests like 12v car batteries..

  
  
  I wouldn't use mine on live mains, so far ive used it on testing batterys, fuses and a 5v mains adapter I modded for use on a fibre optic lamp, just small things.
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  jonrobertson1 year, 3 months ago5 Likes #11Show comment toolsReply

  Alinshearah

  LordLardy

  Do I really want to electrocute myself with this? I'd spend a bit more and get something better rather than risking it. Good price if you know what you are getting. :p
  
  

  
  do you think it will be 'volty'

  
  What a terrible joke. I'm going 'ohm'
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  knobbly1 year, 3 months ago4 Likes #12Show comment toolsReply

  Absolute bargain! Have 1 in each of my cars. For the morons who want a continuity checker...
  do you really understand the impedance margins necessary to trigger the continuity buzzer and how they affect your measurements?
  
  These are perfectly safe on 240v. For the morons who would only use these on no more than their 12v car batteries...
  have you ever droppped a spanner across your car battery terminals? It would become a blob of molten metal. Try it.
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  darksideby1821 year, 3 months ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  knobbly

  Absolute bargain! Have 1 in each of my cars. For the morons who want a continuity checker...
  do you really understand the impedance margins necessary to trigger the continuity buzzer and how they affect your measurements?
  
  These are perfectly safe on 240v. For the morons who would only use these on no more than their 12v car batteries...
  have you ever droppped a spanner across your car battery terminals? It would become a blob of molten metal. Try it.

  
  Good luck trying to use this onsite does not conform to gs38
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  knobbly1 year, 3 months ago1 Like #14Show comment toolsReply

  darksideby182

  Good luck trying to use this onsite does not conform to gs38

  
  
  My God. You would seriously contemplate using a £2.99 instrument on a site !
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  aLV4261 year, 3 months ago3 Likes #15Show comment toolsReply

  GS 38 is a British HSE guidance document; it is advisory, not mandatory. The standard for safety of test equipment is BSEN 61010.
  FWIW I have had very good customer service from Electro Market...
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  arthurplank1 year, 3 months ago3 Likes #16Show comment toolsReply

  HOT!
  To all those who think you'll kill yourself; If you do, you're not doing it right.
  These are CE marked and are suitable for the job that they are designed for and will not pass mains AC through their casings. The probes are probably insulated to 1000V or so so they will also be fine. These things are great bread and butter meters and are better suited to basic electronics than domestic or industrial electrics; but will suffice within it's rated range.
  I have a few of these, they have lasted years! And are great for connecting a few to a circuit at once to see how things vary throughout. Usually they are quite accurate too, within one lsd.
  Although for very accurate readings I have a more expensive one with a PC interface so doubles up as a data-logger.
  
  The continuity checker would be nice but for the price you can't complain, get a battery and a buzzer too and you can build your own. :D
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  jamesdew1 year, 3 months ago3 Likes #17Show comment toolsReply

  i connected a 10p light bulb to my mains electricity once, true story.
  
  And I lived to tell the tale.
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  jamesdew1 year, 3 months ago1 Like #18Show comment toolsReply

  Jangoninja

  Listing states 'Uses 1 x AA battery (provided).'
  
  Sounds wrong.

  
  
  it only has to power an LCD display
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  shauneco1 year, 3 months ago5 Likes #19Show comment toolsReply

  I put red on one nipple and black on the other, Turns out I produce electric.
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  cybergibbons1 year, 3 months ago #20Show comment toolsReply

  knobbly

  Absolute bargain! Have 1 in each of my cars. For the morons who want a continuity checker...
  do you really understand the impedance margins necessary to trigger the continuity buzzer and how they affect your measurements?

  
  
  I like the way you have invented the term "impedance margins".

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