Where to get a cheap but accurate voltmeter (multimeter) in stores?

[highc1157]

Exactly the title. Need to upgrade my game and get me a voltmeter for battery testing and safety precautions

Looking to spend in stores no more than $10-15 on one and purchase it in person in a B&M storefront, just dunno where.

 

[Buffalano]

You can get a voltmeter/multimeter from a hardware store or home depot, that's where a lot of the B&M stores get them........i believe

 

[David1975]

IDK if your looking for a 510 volt meter/ohm checker only, but I'd tell you to get a small multimeter instead of the "e-cig" stuff out there. In most cases, even the cheep $9.99 Harbor Freight meters are more accurate than the $15-25 checkers I've seen in stores. Bonus to the true multimeter, you can use it for more than just e-cigs(auto and home electrical). Check your area, here in Chicago I just had a coupon in the sales add for a free one.... literally walked in yesterday with the paper and walk out with the meter.

 

[iamthevoice]

Some advice I received a long time ago about tool purchases: always buy the best you can as cheap tools are more frustrating than no tools. With that said, I might point out that a lot of "cheaper" multimeters also use such esoteric batteries that you might just be better off with a basic ohm checker!

 

[highc1157]

Some advice I received a long time ago about tool purchases: always buy the best you can as cheap tools are more frustrating than no tools. With that said, I might point out that a lot of "cheaper" multimeters also use such esoteric batteries that you might just be better off with a basic ohm checker!

Are there multimeters that read ohms into the tens place?

 

[Tmg666]

You can get a decent multimeter From homedepot or other hardware stores. Multimeters are better then the lazy ones you get from b&ms. Can do so much more with the multimeter thrn just check the ohms of a build. I would go with one with alot of good reviews though

 

[chrisj3982]

Harbor freight tools

 

[highc1157]

Do most multimeters go out to the tens place in accuracy? I need , for instance, DMM in the $20-30 range that will display accuracy to 0.57, for example, instead of 0.6,

Or 2.67, instead of 2.7.

For sub ohm building