Multimeter recomendations

On 21 Sep 2010 at 21:02, Tony Duell wrote: A couple of years ago, I received a Mastech 8284 DMM as a promotional item ("buy $50 or more of our stuff and we'll throw in a meter"). After awhile, I found myself using it more than my Fluke 77. The accuracy is very good on mine, the display is large (with a backlight), the continuity checker is fast, and it seems to be well- made, right down to having brass bushings on the battery compartment screws (and you don't have to remove the rubber "bib" to get at them). http://www.p-mastech.com/products/04_dm/ms8264.html The battery compartment is pretty decent--it's sized to exactly fit a 9V battery with no foam to keep it in place. Connections to the terminals are via spring contacts, making it easy to change. It's not an autoranger like the Fluke, but I'm not sure that I care for the autoranging feature. Yes, there are some things that I don't care for; I wish the buttons were better engineered, but all in all, it's way better than the Harbor Freqight DMM. Another one I've used for many years is one branded by JDR--decent enough, but no continuity buzzer. --Chuck