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You can't carry out safe isolation with either of those, please get a similar checker to HSE GS38 standard, it could save your life.Which one lol? I haven’t got anything other than an electrical screwdriver and a volt pen.
I bought this one in 2016. About £32 at the time. Made in China but works fine, I'm well pleased with it. Link quotes $$ and says not shipped to UK, but if I remember right I ordered it from Amazon OK. My model looks (very) slightly different but still MS2108A.hi folks. As the title really. I’m a complete novice on the electrics.
Have you got a combi check ? i.e. Voltage & continuity such as this one.
What sort of work do you do ?
You are likely to use this far more than a multimeter.
hi folks. As the title really. I’m a complete novice on the electrics.
I'm curious as to how you buy a multimeter by mistake?If you are complete novice, are you able to safely isolate? If you are then as others have suggested a 2-pole voltage tester to HSE GS38 tip for safe isolation, live testing, etc.
Multimeters are so prevalent in the industry, my own are an extech (owned by flir)auto ranging and a ethos 2nd hand one off ebay. I wouldn’t go too cheap, but heard the £10 ones from Lidl and Aldi are supposed to be ok. I also have a brand new (maybe selling as bought by mistake) amprobe multimeter.
I bought this one in 2016. About £32 at the time. Made in China but works fine, I'm well pleased with it. Link quotes $$ and says not shipped to UK, but if I remember right I ordered it from Amazon OK. My model looks (very) slightly different but still MS2108A.
http://www.amazon.com/MS2108A-Range...qid=1443188314&sr=1-7&keywords=dc+clamp+meter
I'm curious as to how you buy a multimeter by mistake?
hi folks. As the title really. I’m a complete novice on the electrics.
I can only assume the Flukes have some good points to justify the ~ £200 cost. My MS2108A does the usual things and measures high AC and DC current as well. Doesn't do low current through the leads, but I've not needed that.
I can only assume the Flukes have some good points to justify the ~ £200 cost. My MS2108A does the usual things and measures high AC and DC current as well. Doesn't do low current through the leads, but I've not needed that.
I had a bag of fluke meters till they were nicked, I now have three Mastec meters including an amp, continuity and multi. An electrical engineer friend of mine checked two of them over using his reference test gear and said they were fine for what I needed and great value and they have been for the past six years or so. Are they as well made, function rich or as accurate as a Fluke? No but they don't really need to be.
With Fluke etc you’re not paying for improved accuracy and stability you’re paying for the engineering/testing/design that stops the thing killing you.
They are CAT 3 - 600V
They’ve got CAT 3 600v stamped on them, even if they are CAT 3 that’s a minimum standard. Fluke etc far exceed this.
It's industrially rated equipment I grant you but that's the point isn't it? CAT 4 isn't domestic.
Personally, I'm not going to do that, any more than you're likely to bin yours. The charred ones might have been because the user did something crazy. Mine is quite adequate for what I and I suspect heating guys and domestic electricians would use it for. It says it's OK for 600 volt, AC and DC. Somebody working on high voltage is in a different ballgame.Personally I’d chuck that in the bin, having seen the charred remains of several no name multi meters it’s not something to mess about with.
Not with my meter you wouldn't. It only has voltage terminals, current measurement just uses the clamp, ideal for eg vehicle alternator output.Sooner or later you’ll check an AC voltage with the leads in the current measurement terminals, we’ve all done it.
Personally, I'm not going to do that, any more than you're likely to bin yours. The charred ones might have been because the user did something crazy. Mine is quite adequate for what I and I suspect heating guys and domestic electricians would use it for. It says it's OK for 600 volt, AC and DC. Somebody working on high voltage is in a different ballgame.
Not with my meter you wouldn't. It only has voltage terminals, current measurement just uses the clamp, ideal for eg vehicle alternator output.
It's fair to say that the protection claims made by many budget Chinese makers should be taken with a pinch of salt, absolutely but some aren't as bad as they used to be like touting CAT 4 when they were 3 or even 2. Makers like Mastec and Uni-T I think are OK or in my respect good enough. Would I use them if I did commercial/industrial, absolutely not, I haven't had an event in the years of ownership but if I'm unlucky enough to be on the wrong end of a lightning strike when servicing a Chinese boiler, even a Fluke wouldn't protect me from that.
A multi meter is a magic box of tricks and technology, our earnings and safety is based on the quality of what’s inside it.
Some products are expensive because you’re buying a lifestyle brand (Apple) some products are expensive because you’re buying quality and sound engineering (Hilti).
Most normal people do not have the skills to know the difference between a well and poorly designed device. Given your talking about £100 between Fluke and Uni-T it doesn’t seem unreasonable especially given most meters last at lest 5 years, I’ve got a fluke 87 I’ve used most days that must be 10 years old.
Personally I don’t buy anything that my safety relies upon from an unknown source for the same reason I go to the Dr to get medication rather than a back alley somewhere.
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