This Clamp Meter is an auto/manual ranging, professional meter with Digital Analog Display * Advanced design for the trouble shooting of electrical, heating and air conditioning systems * Safe for non-invasive current measurements of up to 1000 AMPS * Rugged design for reliable use in the field * For more than 30 years Elenco has been producing reliable as well as affordable electronic test equipment, tools, and educational kits
Excellent readouts, which were the same as my Fluke. Useful if you need to check frequency of AC especially when servicing standby generators. Measures temperatures, which may not be as accurate as the actual temperature but within 2 degrees F. For that price you cannot go wrong.
As an electronics hobbyist for some forty years, I always had a few volt-ohm meters lying around, and I never needed to upgrade since getting a fairly full-duty meter in the late 1980's. When installing some solar panels recently, though, I needed a way to read fairly high DC amperage, and preferably without having to break into the circuitry. I was ready to try out a clamp meter, but being out of the new features loop for some years, I was concerned that I might get something for a specialized niche, tha..
I use this primarily for occasional DC high current measurement at work. It's a little on the light-weight side for heavy-duty use, but for my purposes it works quite well. The clamp-on current measurement is quite easy and functional, but using it as a multimeter is a little bit clumsy. I recommend that you use this ain conjunction with a standard multimeter, rather than try to use this for all-around use.
