Recommendation on multimeter

@ Architect - Take a look at this meter. Specifically for measuring capacitors rather than a general purpose multimeter, it can check your ESR and other parameters in-circuit. Sounds ideal for what you are looking to use it for, and not that expensive. CapAnalyzer 88A series II by Electronic Design Specialists
Their LeakSeeker looks pretty nice too, though they don’t give a price for shipping to Australia.

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@ C-Born - That’s a very nice cap tester. Thanks for the pointer. Bonus - they have a distributor a short drive from me!

@ C-Born - Interesting. Thank you!

On the multimeter subject, I will admit to buying a ~$35 meter after watching the $50 meter shootout. It did not take long before it started giving funny readings at times.

Now, I am back to my $5 (or less… I bought it 15 years ago in West Africa) DMM (a variation on this: http://www.harborfreight.com/7-function-multimeter-98025.html ), because while it’s far from sexy, and manual ranging, at least when I stick the probes on something, it gives a reading and stays there.

In the $100 range shootout, Dave seemed to actually approve of some of the meters, which gives confidence that in this range one might find a meter that could actually be used.

I didn’t see a price on it - any idea how much they are?

Was toying with the idea of getting one and sending it to EEVBlog to get him to do a teardown/review before we all go and buy them :wink:

$229.00 (you have to go through the “order now” and pick a payment method).

Ahh, it said “fill out our form”, so I assumed it was an old school “email us and we’ll call you” form.

I may send Dave @ EEVBlog an email and see if he’s interested anyhow.

And Architect, you already made you’re choice?