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I need a second opinion of a what to use.

I have a multimeter that has the basics. I have an old extech scopemeter that has db, capacitane. As will as 100khz wave forms.

I saw this: https://www.justblair.co.uk/seeed-studio-dso-nano-pocket-digital-storage-oscilloscope-review.html Pocket o'scop.

Could still carry the multimeter with the o'scope to help on the job.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Mike


edited to fix link

Link's no good. What are you trying to test?

Thanks for the reply.

I was tring to figure out if the cable has voltage it picked up, without blowing up my cable tester again.

Plain old multimeter will do just fine. You might get smart like I did. Got tired of the guys blowing up $25 meters. I bought a bunch of Chinese meters on e-bay. $3 each including shipping when I bought 10.

Meters are ok for check normal 110ac, or seeing if the fuse blown. There are times, when I get into the weird voltage area, that it would be nice to see what the voltage looks like.

Where did my last post go...like the others said, no need to spend a ton of money. If you end up blowing the fuse in the meter, you can easily replace it

Weird voltage in the telco field, to me anyway, would be an AC component on a DC line, ie. hum on the audio. If you look at the pair with a multimeter set to AC, all you will see is the AC. Probably something under 2 volts. I always start with 120, just in case, and then work my way down to a setting that gives me a clear reading. Sometimes you need a really high impedance meter to see the stray/unwanted !@#$% stuff, tho. And lets not discuss what you might see on an idle G/S pair!