Multimeter Suggestion?

[winfred]

these are ****ing cool $300 would be a steal for this with the kv module, graphing auto ranging meter with a data base for more cars, it does a good impression of a lab scope too, you can read waveforms on stuff like abs sensors and refrence sensors

[ryan roopnarine]

dittos on bill's comments about harbor freight units. i buy VOMs two at a time as well. about a year ago, harbor freight had their 9-12$ digital cheapo unit on sale for like $3.75 or so. bought two thinking that one would certainly break in the interim. the first $3.75 one i opened is still chugging along, i actually ended up giving the other one away to somebody because this one is still going strong. i like to pick up the REEEAALL cheap ones from harbor freight because the probes alone are usually worth more than the $1-$5 you'd pay for the meter+probes.

[Mr._Graybeard]

I like the SunPro CP7678 digital multimeter. It has a setting that lets you measure duty cycle (good for checking the signal to the E34 heater valve, among other things). Sears has 'em for $60 but I just bought one used off eBay for about $15 shipped.

That said, the one I bought from Sears for retail crapped out after maybe 4 years of not terribly arduous service. I'll be more careful with this one and hope it's not as delicate.