Commercial Electric (Home Depot) MAS830B Multimeter

[FenderBender]

Hey guys,

I needed 2 more multimeters quickly, and I really don't trust Radio Shack meters at all, besides being overpriced, so I decided to go out on a limb and check out Home Depot's offerings. I got this for $19.

What do I think of it?

Pros-

1.) Pretty cheap
2.) Doesn't feel too bad in the hand
3.) Seems fairly accurate actually, up against my other meters
4.) Internal build isn't terrible considering the price. Could be better, could be worse
5.) Test probes are short, but pretty reasonable

Cons-

1.) No decisive click when you change ranges- You don't know what range you are on
2.) Manual ranging- but to be expected
3.) Supplied battery friggin sucks
4.) Kickstand also friggin sucks
5.) Sometimes just doesn't work (could be the range switch)
6.) No backlight

[retiredcaps]

5.) Sometimes just doesn't work (could be the range switch)

Again, thanks for sharing the photos and review. 

If it just doesn't sometimes work, I would definitely return it.

[amyk]

Rebranded Mastech MAS830B? Even the model number is the same, although this one has both inputs fused and is missing the hFE function.

Probably based on the same ICL7106 as all the other cheap ones like the DT830.

[ModemHead]

I would be curious to know what it reads if you probe a 9V battery with the 200 V AC range.  Switch the probes around both ways.