If you were to ask a random Hackaday reader what their most fundamental piece of electronic test equipment was, it’s likely that they would respond with “multimeter”. If you asked them to produce it, ...

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Zak is new to the CarBuzz team, working as a freelance content writer. When Zak isn't writing How To articles for CarBuzz he's working as a high school automotive technology instructor. Before ...

PM Series digital multimeters offer superior user protection with UL safety ratings up to CAT III at 300V and CAT II at 600V, says the company. The units measure AC/DC voltage, frequency, capacitance, ...

Modern digital multimeters (DMMs) are user-friendly, accurate, and safe — when used correctly! Reading voltage is simple, but measurements must be properly interpreted. With a clamp-on DMM, accurate ...

Digital multimeters (DMM), once called voltmeters, have been described as the tape measure for engineers in the new millennium. With electronics and electrical circuits included in almost every ...

Digital multimeters are precise and accurate instruments, with some models being very expensive. No matter the cost, one problem pervades every one of these devices: They do a poor job of conveying ...

My colleague, Martin Rowe, who is Senior Technical Editor of Test & Measurement World, just posted an interesting article that describes how to turn your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, etc.) into a digital ...