Good cheap meter for hobbiest

[innkeeper]

it would certainly be convenient for how he would use it if he could measure ripple, but not something he would miss unless it is explained to him.

[innkeeper]

The Best for an Electronics Hobbyist or Technician is the RuoShui 9808+ (Victor VC9808+).

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Precise with very good specs, costs only $25 (free shipping) with ALL the Features you need, even inductance measuring.

Prove I'm wrong.   

i am gonna call you out on this one Trader.

Seriously 1999 count meter....it appears that you posted that just to get an affiliate link on a forum.

[myf]

Hello,

I have an old ut-61e and I appreciate it because it's the only one with 20000counts and an IR-usb data-logger for about 10eur more.
Freesoft Sigrok is perfect in simple reading its data.   I feel that ohm mesasures are 5counts too light : with 2 or 3 série or parallel resistors (at 10kohm) I get 4995, 9995, 14995, and 19995. I don't know the exact value of these resistors, bu this error isn't a proportional error, but an offset error. I don't know its proportional error.   

This one doesn't have temperature measures, others ut-61 have, but they only have 4000 or 6000counts. ut-61a has not usb link ability. One of the ut-71 has also and temperature measures and 30000 or 40000count and usb link, but it is older, more complex to use and a lot of people explain it is less secure for mains use. With it's IR-usb link (recognise by Sigrok) it costs about 100eur with its usb link.

Hope this help !

[rstofer]

Ultimately, there is a need for more than 1 DMM.  I can hang 3 of them around a transistor:  base current, collector current and Vce come to mind.

One of them, if not all of them, might as well be the Aneng 8008.  I have several meters including a Fluke 189 and both of eevBlog's offerings but I actually use the Aneng.

It's a handy little meter available via Amazon (stocked elsewhere).

https://www.amazon.com/ANENG-AN8008-Multimeter-Resistance-Capacitance/dp/B076GZK62B

I don't see the DMM as all that handy for uC projects once we know that the power is present.  OTOH, I can't see the colors on small resistors so I measure every one of them before I put them in place.

The BSide ZT-X is a pretty nice meter with a BRIGHT display.  Dave did a review that was generally positive but he hated the BRIGHT display.  I like the BRIGHT display!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JJ9MR3L

https://youtu.be/xB-Fs4yPL2o

It is also known as the Aneng Q1

[rsjsouza]

The BSide ZT-X is a pretty nice meter with a BRIGHT display.  Dave did a review that was generally positive but he hated the BRIGHT display.  I like the BRIGHT display!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JJ9MR3L

https://youtu.be/xB-Fs4yPL2o

It is also known as the Aneng Q1

Rstofer, at this price (on Ali/Banggood) the Bside ZT-Y is a much better offer with a very well lit display (the ZT-X I recall it was spotty) and overall a solid build.

The ZT-Y is also known as the Aneng SZ-18 or Richmeters RM777

Amazon sells it for a bit more:
https://www.amazon.com/BSIDE-Multimeter-Auto-Ranging-Capacitance-Temperature/dp/B08N13WN86