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  • Nerfinator
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2015
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    • USA
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    Best Least Expensive Multimeter?

    I'm in the market for a new multimeter and I think it's time to spend something closer to $100 rather than the $10 I have been spending on disposable ones that crap out after 6 months to a year and I figure this would be the place to ask as to what would be a good multimeter in that price range? I do mostly small, consumer, electronic repair.

    Thanks in advance!
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    • mockingbird
      Badcaps Legend
      • Dec 2008
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      Re: Best Least Expensive Multimeter?

      Hands down the Fluke 17B+.

      True, you can get higher count meters with more features for the same price, but the Fluke meets its CAT rating.

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        • retiredcaps
          Badcaps Legend
          • Apr 2010
          • 9271
          #3
          Re: Best Least Expensive Multimeter?

          Originally posted by Nerfinator
          I do mostly small, consumer, electronic repair.
          See this thread.

          https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=43396
          Last edited by retiredcaps; 02-12-2015, 04:14 PM.
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