Decent Multimeter with backlight and auto-off.

[Rampage]

Hi, I'm looking for a cheapish but good multimeter with a backlight on the display and turns off automatically.

The cheapest Fluke 101 has auto-off but the website doesn't say if it has a backlight.
Thanks.

 

[Dan]

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[GMES]

there must have been a nano second between those posts.

 

[ruston]

I bought one of these for the lux meter, and as a carry around .
I am impressed with it , and have no hesitation recommending it.
It compares readings with my Meggers , and checkbox.
For the price you cannot go wrong with the facilities it has .
It does have the backlight and auto shut off too.
HandyMAN TEK1320 5 in 1 Environmental Meter and Digital Multimeter - http://www.test-meter.co.uk/handyman-tek1320-5-in-1-environment-multimeter/

 

[Silly Sausage]

HandyMAN TEK1320 5 in 1 Environmental Meter and Digital Multimeter - http://www.test-meter.co.uk/handyman-tek1320-5-in-1-environment-multimeter/

That's a handy looking meter, can you cailbrate the temp with ice and boiling water?

 

[ruston]

That's a handy looking meter, can you cailbrate the temp with ice and boiling water?

Do you want me to try lol.
I have put the probe in an electric oven and it cut out and the meter read the correct temp. .
The light meter was accurate to my Weston Euromaster.
It is a cracking meter for the money, even has a humidistat.

 

[Silly Sausage]

This is important, I'm getting into homebrew and the instrument tech in me requires accurate temperature measurement!

 

[ruston]

This is important, I'm getting into homebrew and the instrument tech in me requires accurate temperature measurement!

Ah , life or death. In that case I will do it now.

 

[Dan]

Keep threads on topic lads please.

 

[UKMeterman]

BEWARE, the cheap multimeter above has an UNFUSED 10A shunt and I would suspect it would have a glass bodied fuse on the the small shunt. It would be very nasty if either shunt ended up L to E/N or across phases. 34XR-A BEHA-AMPROBE, True RMS Digital Multimeter, 3999 Count with Temperature and Backlight | Farnell element14 - http://uk.farnell.com/beha-amprobe/34xr-a/multimeter/dp/1466461 would be a better idea, backlight, HBC fuses on the shunts and has a very strong magnet on a strap on the back to hang anywhere.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Keep threads on topic lads please.

Instrument accuracy and calibration are very much on topic!

 

[Dan]

Instrument accuracy and calibration are very much on topic!

So end of then yeah?

 

[Resu]

Megger AVO410 from Test Meter.

 

[Rampage]

Thanks, I'll look into it some more!