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Don Henschel
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Fluke is a great choice and for expensive they also have lower priced simpler models as well. As others have mentioned stay away from cheap junk!! I desperately needed a meter one day and went to the local Home Hardware and the ONLY good news is it was cheap grrrrrrrrrr! The garbage won’t even test a 2 meg resistor because it doesn’t read that high! Just good for testing batteries and perhaps if there is power at an outlet!
Later on I purchased a Mark 8 AVO meter and they are the Rolls Royce of British Meters lol. The slang for them is a “smiling face meter” They can be purchased for minimal quid as well and are very good for an analog meter. The Flukes also test capacitors but in my case I use my Heathkit IT-11 so this kept me from purchasing a Fluke as well. I’m fortunate to have accumulated a Heathkit Signal Generator as well along with a pair of Heathkit tube testers and my late father’s Stark tube tester from the 40’s.