Spent $150 on a cheap multimeter and it gave me bad readings for a month

Honestly, I thought I was being smart saving cash on a no-name multimeter from Amazon. For like a month, I was getting weird voltage readings on a nav system install and couldn't figure out why. Turned out the meter was off by almost 2 volts on DC settings. Ended up borrowing a Fluke from a coworker and everything worked fine. Has anyone else had a cheap tool mess up their work like that?

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the_luna9d ago

2 volts off on DC is wild, I'd have lost my mind over that.

jesse848d ago

Wait, you mean you were chasing electrical gremlins for a whole month because of a junk multimeter? Man, that's rough. I'd be losing my mind after the first week.