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https://www.rapidonline.com/rapid-rhmm17-digital-multimeter-90-0005
With VAT and delivery it'll be a little over budget but not much. Maybe £35.
I reckon £30ish should get you something perfectly good for guitar and pedal work. There are good reasons why Flukes are more expensive, but they're not necessarily good enough in this context.
I have not tested transistors for a while but when I did I tended to just use the diode setting and the leads rather than the inbuilt tester.
Cheap ones are fine for home use. I have a couple of Flukes and also have a cheap no name brand one from Maplin that was in a £5 buy 2 for 1 deal and so was £2.50. It is fine and has lasted for over 10 years so far. The leads feel cheap though.
Tenma - sold on CPC are pretty decent for the money. I have one and although I find it's slower to react than my Fluke it's only 1/10th of the price so I give it a pass.
Here's the Tenma range here on CPC
https://cpc.farnell.com/c/test-equipment/multimeters-clamp-meters?brand=tenma
One thing, though- mine (the 72-8150 I think) came with crocodile clips for the stock cables. I've never built any pedals but I think you might need the probe type for pedal builds, the clips are a bit big for that I would guess.
That's a much handier way to do it The croc clips are very handy for when you need to take a reading of a wire or similar.
Options, options was easier getting simple meter for the campervan 12v and solar all seems much simpler than moving on to pedals. Had to smile at the Maplin tester as wanted to get one of those just as they closed down, still kick myself for not getting one.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
As per the review, the magnetic strap hanger thing is rubbish, but I just remove it anyway. Otherwise, I can't fault them.
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
Mine doesn't have the auto-ranging but it has everything else. Unfortunately the prices have gone up quite a bit over the last while... I'm pretty sure mine was well under £30 when I got it a couple of years ago. £21 or £22 rings a bell, but that probably was excluding VAT so probably more like £26 or so.
Every single time I put something away somewhere "safer", I immediately forget where the "safer" place is while still remembering where the original "unsafe" place was...
Good news is that having found my current meter I was able to double check my resistor values to build my jedspeds OCD pedal (which sounds brilliant). Just on to case painting and stickers for it.