Digital Multimeter suggestion wanted

[Dave Balfour]

I purchased  a small digital handleld high impedence multi meter from
radio shack for 20 dollars last year. It is smaller than a pack of
cigarettes including the leads
-----Original Message-----
From: garfield at pilgrimhouse.com <garfield at pilgrimhouse.com>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
<diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: Digital Multimeter suggestion wanted


>On Tue, 05 May 1998 21:59:06 -0400, Clare Snyder <snyder at huron.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Steven Gorkowski wrote:
>>>
>>> If you buy radio shack meter buy the extended warranty I bought
the data
>>> logging one that hooks to the pc and it rides in a race car.
>>> meter $99.00
>>> 3 yr. $9.99
>
>>Forget the extended warranty - if it is going to fail it will
likely
>>fail within warranty. Use the money you save on this warranty,
double
>>it, and buy another meter. The warranties are a rip-off.
>
>Actually Clare, this might be one eXtreme eXception to me feeling
just
>like you do, cuz REMEMBER, on the multimeters, if you forget and
leave
>the leads in the CURRENT measuring plugins, you run a decent risk of
>fryin the thang, EVEN if it does have good fast fuses. BTDT. It's
true
>it shouldn't happen, but on the lesser well designed ones at this
price
>point, it's a REAL issue.
>
>Funny story: I was in a Grainger office one day, waiting for my
order to
>get picked, and a bunch of us waitin at the counter were watching
this
>Fluke "bake-off contest" movie running on the demo TV. They showed
how
>lots of the lesser brands don't always pass the smoke test on OV
>ratings, and how many of them will smoke (even tho fused) if you
screw
>up and forget to put the leads back in the right place after
measuring
>current. As the guy on the TV goes and demos this "boo-boo", all of
us
>standing there looked at each other, grinned, and then swore to each
>other that we'd "NEVER done that". Hee. Worth a good hoot, it was.
>
>Gar
>