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Multimeter? TENMA 72-6130 or FLUKE 106 any good?

mudz
mudz over 9 years ago

UPDATE 2(31/01/2016):
Finally, I went for FLUKE 115 as it was the only thing looked good at that price & I preferred quality over features this time. I purchased it for $100(Rs. 6729) here in India. Another DMM, I was also looking for was Mastec MS8218(50000 counts) but it was going over budget (at $165 or Rs. 11300). If I had money, I had gone for MS8218.
I have ordered(fluky 115) it today and waiting for its delivery. image

I will buy few more good multi meters(better than fluke 115) year.


UPDATE:
Kindly suggest me a good multi meter around $100 (+$20) range.

 

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Hi,

All these years I managed to make my projects using$2 multi-meter I'm considering some better upgrade to that. Is TENMA  72-613072-6130 fine under $50 or FLUKE 107 or FLUKE 106 or TENMA 72-10395 will work fine?
Important specs:-

Voltage,

Current

resistance,

Frequency & duty cycle

continuity,


other bonus specs

capacitance,
Temperature

Transistor HFE

 

or is there something better below $50? Actually I have to buy few more components on a thin budget so I am cutting it down on multi-meter. Hopefully, I will buy another good one later this year but for now what do you suggest?

Thank you!

 

mudz

 

Update: to mention what I bought finally. :) Message was edited by: mudz

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 9 years ago +1
    Hi! Glad you asked before you purchased : ) Not sure on those little flukes - they are for general household use, not for engineers. I just checked the basics on those like resolution and if you can manually…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 9 years ago in reply to mudz +1
    Hi! Uni-T are pretty awful (from experience). The Fluke 107 isn't appropriate either, it has a resolution of 1mA on the current range, which is unusable for electronics design. Why do you need frequency…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 9 years ago in reply to mudz +1
    I think the Tenma one (72-7745) is about the right specification. The frequency measurement examples don't require a multimeter, so you could continue to use your existing multimeter until you have the…
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