With this guide, you'll learn the ins and outs of troubleshooting your home and household electronics using a handy multimeter.

See the Sidebar below on “Ten Deadly Mistakes to Avoid When Using a Multimeter.” Effective use of the multimeter is a worthy professional goal for all electrical workers. Analog or digital? Two basic ...

When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around ...

Learn How to Use a Multimeter for All Your DIY Electronics Projects. Thorin Klosowski. February 3, 2014 Multimeters are ...

One of the most basic tools for tinkering with electronics is a multimeter. Today, even a cheap meter has capabilities that would have been either very expensive or unobtainable back in the 1970s ...

You can use a multimeter with capacitance-measurement capability to measure the length of wire or cable to an open circuit. The capacitance of a pair of wires (or a wire to a shield) is directly ...

[Piffpaffpoltrie] had a problem. They found the InLine VA40R to be a perfectly usable multimeter, except for a couple of flaws. Most glaring among these were the tiny sockets for the test probes. T… ...

Now that you've purchased your digital multimeter, you're ready for the next step: choosing the right accessories. A complement of accessories can enhance the versatility of the digital multimeter, ...

Question: I’m about to buy a digital multimeter to troubleshoot all sorts of electrical issues around my home. I’ll be blunt. Do you own one? If so, which one? What do you like about the one ...