I know what your saying, I bought my Blue Point from the Snap On truck because he was there, I also get a small tool allowance so it wasn't all out of pocket.
Not the best use of funds but it was a good meter until I blew it up with 10kv, it was originally intended to work on cars with but since the shop has a Fluke I took my meter home.
It may still be repairable if I ever find a schematic, it still functions but the calibration is whacked and there are a couple smoked resistors that I have no idea of the value.
As long as I'm using it around TV sets and their HV supplies it makes no sense to use an expensive meter, I wouldn't mind something a notch or two above this one but the budgets a little tight at the moment.
I didn't actually buy this one at Horror Freight, if I had it would probably have been $9.95.
I bought this beauty at the Local Electronics Warehouse, I was surprised they had something this cheap actually but I guess they have to compete. They had some multi hundred dollar Flukes as well.
I really want to get an Auto-ranging unit at some point, flipping the range back and forth gets tiring and slows things down.
I used this tonight and it actually works pretty well, for how long is anyone's guess, until I hit it with 10kv most likely.
