When looking at a meter, stay away from the "electricians" stuff as that is geared to AC and higher voltages (ie: your 200v and 600v scales on the Klein) as Sly mentioned, lower scale voltages let you be more precise, and if you have to measure micro volts when doing fuse voltage drop tests you pretty much require a very low scale to take those readings.
Same is true for current clamp meters you find in the same aisle in Home Despot is useless to you as most don't do low DC current, again, these are for electricians who are dealing in amps, and don't care much beyond a half amp resolution if even that.
As Sly alludes to, a Harbor Freight DMM will be more usefull to you around a car. But I don't think I'd particularily trust it around house AC though. But hey, more meters the merrier. Between Sly and myself, we probably own more meters in a variety of flavors than the entire stock of meters at your local home depot, different tasks, different tools.
Same is true for current clamp meters you find in the same aisle in Home Despot is useless to you as most don't do low DC current, again, these are for electricians who are dealing in amps, and don't care much beyond a half amp resolution if even that.
As Sly alludes to, a Harbor Freight DMM will be more usefull to you around a car. But I don't think I'd particularily trust it around house AC though. But hey, more meters the merrier. Between Sly and myself, we probably own more meters in a variety of flavors than the entire stock of meters at your local home depot, different tasks, different tools.
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