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Digital Multimeters - Recommendations?

By PinballFever

7 years ago


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    #1 7 years ago

    I need one for EM troubleshooting to replace my old busted up analog multimeter and there are so many of them. (No electronic circuit troubleshooting.)

    Thanks in advance,
    Bruce

    #16 7 years ago

    These are great recommendations and I watched the entire video. Strong recommendation for a good quality DMM there.

    I just want the meter to do coil resistance and circuit continuity tests for my 4 EM pinball machines.

    Is it worth paying more to be able to test current and would you test currents on an EM?

    Thanks again,
    Bruce

    #24 7 years ago
    Quoted from shimoda:

    very informative

    Agreed! I've learned a lot from this thread, thanks guys.

    Looks like I only need the multimeter for measuring resistance and continuity.

    The video does explain the dangers of using cheap multimeters with live voltage.

    Looks like I'll get a cheap one to start with then get a fluke down the road.

    Bruce

    #33 7 years ago

    Even more great recommendations and advice from you guys. This has been very helpful.

    Quoted from schudel5:

    You'll use the diode setting a lot too to measure, diodes, bridges and transistors.

    I have four EMs ranging from 1949 to 1968. I'm not sure they have diodes, bridges and transistors but I've been learning from Clay's pinrepair site that they can be used for modifications.

    Quoted from schudel5:

    As someone else mentioned, have a continuity setting with an audible beep.

    This wouldn't be very useful to me because I have a hearing loss but the guy in the video mentioned the ability to freeze the reading so you can look at it. There are several features he recommends looking for such as auto ranging etc in a multimeter.

    There's so many recommendations and reasons stated here for getting a fluke that I'm thinking about getting one in the 50-100 range.

    Bruce

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