Multimeter recomendations

Nor do I. I find it takes considerably longer for me to read the thing if the range has changed between readings. The worst I ever used was a Fluke 73 (the original one, this was over 25 years ago). It was autoranging _only_ and had the analogue bargraph along the bottom of the display. You can guess the rest. You'd be trying to peak or null something, the darn thing would change ranges, and the bar would suddnetly shrink or grow. Rather defeated the prupose of that bargraph... I would _never_ consider an autoranging-only meter. I think it does. The best tools are ones that you know how they are going to behave, so you don't ahve to think about them. This is one reason I'll not use anything but an RPN calcualtor, I don't want to have to remember all the precedence rules (i.e. what does '-2^2' evaluate to?). And probalby why I hate autoconfiguration programs. Any program that thinks it knows more aobut my computer's hardware than I do is wrong. Period. Some of the DEC autoconfuration programs drove me mad. You could end up having to change the addresses and vecotrs of almost all the devices in the machine ebcause you'd removed one controller. Ouch. I would much prefer to be able to say 'I have an RL11 at address <foo>, vector <bar>. Yes, I know htat's non-standard, but just take my word for it':-). Alas all test gear suffers from that. No manufactuer has solved that one. -tony