Thread: Decent digital voltmeter?

Fluke is the way to go,heaps of different models depending what you are going to use it for.Have a look on their website.

They are not the cheapest,but are very accurate,reliable and robust,seem to last for ever.

I've had a dick smith one for years which has never failed to work. A couple of years ago I got a digitech from jaycar so I could of read v. high resistances and have had no problems with it either.

Cheers

Steve.

I have a fluke and a digitor Dick Smith one and both are around 15 years old and no issues with either of them.
Dick Smith has a 12% discount online code at the moment which should help with postage.
12% off a wide range of products T&Cs

Cheers
Mark

Id reccommend almost any of the jaycar ones. (any from this Jaycar Electronics - Search Results for multimeter digital link should do what you need for basic auto work)

but thats an aussie mob.

The meter that came out of aldi a few years back did the job quite well.

It depends a lot on what you want to do with it.

I have a Fluke that is kept in the cupboard, and used when I need accuracy.

I have a cheapy that stays in my tool bag to tell me if a circuit is live or dead, and if a battery is putting out 12 v or 4 v.

Jaycar have pretty good ones, at a reasonable price. Not as good as Fluke perhaps, but nowhere near as expensive.

I got one of these for about $140 I think, and it has done sterling service:

I got a nice deal on a Kincrome unit a couple of years ago to replace my stolen fluke.

Cant fault it...

I just want to be able to check the batteries in my Land Rover. I heard that even when a voltmeter shows "all good", the CCA can be way down and that a separate device such as one made by SOLAR is needed to check this, but I wonder if this is just sales pitch.


I don't know what to do. I hate throwing away money on rubbish that should never have seen the light of day, which seems to be the case with a lot of the cheap stuff (voltmeters), which is just hit-and-miss. I'm not in Oz and couldn't find on German or British websites the ones that have been recommended on this site. I want something modestly priced (I would have thought that around Aus$30 should get something good enough. Why should low-cost mean crap and rubbish? Thank you, China.