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Originally Posted by jr_tech
I would hold off on the Fluke multimeter for a bit... the learning curve is likely to leave a trail of smoked meters... I would buy a couple of 10-15$ cheapies to use and likely sacrifice at first and reward yourself later with a nice Fluke.
jr
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There's some good wisdom in that statement....I still have ~3 harbor freight free at the door DMMs. I used to kill meters regularly in troubleshooting because I would clip lead the meter to the set and switch back and fourth between measuring resistance with the set off and voltage with the set on.... I'd forget and leave it in resistance mode and plug the set in and fry the DMM. My GB model GDT-11 and Fluke have both survived this multiple times so unless I fry those with some kind of worse treatment (I'm a lot more careful than I was 15 years ago so that's doubtful, but I am still human).
The solder sucker is a valid point I have a big old one that can clean a lug fast...I also have been keeping solder wick for circuit boards some tube PCB stuff and many SS sets you can be more precise with using the wick.